23andMe Site Makeover – Color That Site! Will Save Your Aching Eyes
23andMe Site Make Over 23andMe‘s new site makeover has given me a headache — literally! After months of negative feedback, 23andMe has gone ahead with it’s ill-thought-out site make over. Not only is this a waste of effort compared to things that have needed fixed for years (Hello — the email system is 98% Neandertal!) but the gleaming white background has made yours truly unable to even fairly review the changes because within minutes my eyes start strobing or I get spots fluttering over the screen. Within fifteen minutes I have a headache. I have other sites that are problems but it is so annoying that the site, that I use the most for my family search, is making me physically ill. Color That Site! While they seem to have realized the expanse … Read entire article »
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23andMe Site Redesign – Where Is the Site Search Function?
Search Link for 23andMe For my reader’s convenience, I’m putting the link to a search page at the top of the story: Click Here to Search 23andMe New Design Despite feedback from ‘experienced’ users that they didn’t like the new beta site, 23andMe has rolled it out to everyone. I have to admit, I’m not fond of it. For one, it now overrides my background settings forcing me to look at a bright white screen. I work on my … Read entire article »
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How to Contact 23andMe Customer Support
23andMe Changes 23andMe has made their helpdesk almost impossible to contact. You have to search through the site with a fine-toothed comb to find the new “Customer Care” center. Not only that, but you have to fit your request into one of the categories –many problems are NOT covered by a category they have listed and there’s no ‘general’ category. They have made it damn near impossible to contact them and even harder to figure out how … Read entire article »
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23andMe — Best Way to Download Your Ancestry Composition Data!
Ancestry Composition As you no doubt know, 23andMe‘s Ancestry Composition tool is interesting and cute but doesn’t give exact end points. There’s been some discussion on the 23andMe boards about downloading Firebug and using it to get your data. That is fine as far as it goes, but I don’t like all the other add ons that Firebug tries to get you to download so I’ve been using this method. I’m sorry I didn’t post about … Read entire article »
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23andMe Ancesty Composition: Homologous Chromosome Assignment Error
Homologous Chromosomes Using 23andMe’s new Composition Tool creates some challenges and this posting is an attempt to explain the issues brought up in some of their discussion posts. This is still the best Ethnicity tool out there. I applaud them for using their own customers to glean data from hard to test populations. As can be seen from the picture above, you have 2 copies of each chromosome. This is my Ancestry Composition chromosome 6. One of … Read entire article »
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New “Ancestry Composition” Tool at 23andMe – Map View Improvements Needed
New Ancestry Composition Tool at 23andMe On Thursday evening, December 6th 2012, 23andMe released an eagerly awaited new ethnicity calculator called AP2 during its beta phase, for Ancestry Painting version 2. It’s currently listed as “Ancestry Composition” on the left hand side of your screen under the “My Ancestry” heading. I’m not ready to totally evaluate this tool, and may not be for quite some time. It’s been really exiting exploring it so far, and there … Read entire article »
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