¿ªÔÆÌåÓýLinda ? FTDNA announced at their conference that they will in future be using MyHeritage trees though they didn¡¯t provide details or give a timeline. However, I presume that as part of that process they have stopped developing their own family trees and fixing any bugs which may explain the difficulties you¡¯ve been experiencing. They did promise to keep existing trees as read-only versions for those users who are unable to use the MyHeritage facilities. ? Concetta also mentioned concerns about the process of linking FTDNA matches to trees at MyHeritage. I am unclear how this will work. I can foresee difficulties if someone has a subscription and links lots of matches to their tree but then reverts to the free 250-person tree after their subscription expires. I hope the situation will be clarified in due course. ? I¡¯ve personally never found much in the way of useful matches at FTDNA so I¡¯ve never used the tree-linking feature other than for linking my parents to get my matches sorted into the two parental sides. I focus instead on linking matches to my tree at Ancestry. ?I use the tree tags to label matches at FTDNA, MyHeritage and 23andMe. ? ? I can¡¯t see FTDNA implementing their own version of ThruLines in the foreseeable future. They seem to be rightly focused on developing their Y-DNA and mtDNA products instead. ? Debbie ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Linda R Horton
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 11:04 PM To: [email protected]; cfbandit <cfbandit@...> Subject: Re: [R1b-U106] FTDNA Administrators Conference 2023 ? What in the world happened to FTDNA trees? I can remember at one time being able to complete linking on a new test taker's tree to all the folks who had tested before. But at present I have a new test taker--a second cousin whose YDNA test is the one of most interest--and I have encountered nothing but frustration trying to link on his tree (uploaded by me from Ancestry) the many cousins of his whose tests I have sponsored. The search-for-name function seems not to work at all, and even when you manage to get the match list and the proper tree-branch-leaf on the screen at the same time, that drag rectangle from lefthand list to box on tree takes forever to load, if it works at all. ? I am wary of MyHeritage trees. I would rather that FTDNA fix its own trees. Linda Horton
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