The Genealogy Friends DNA Interest Group meets via Zoom and in person at W.O. Haggard Library on the second Tuesday of each month from 7-8:30 pm central time. Links that are discussed at the meetings are added to the website.
At the January meeting, we discussed 23andMe. In the fall of 2023, they had a data breach caused by users who used the same passwords on 23andMe that they used on other websites. Features were disabled and not all of them have returned. In September 2024 the independent directors all resigned. They did not agree with the direction of the company. Their stock has fallen dramatically.
This is a good reminder that we should download our test result data and periodically download matches, messages, etc. from all testing company websites.
There are links on the website with instructions to download data from 23andMe and Ancestry.
Hope to see you at an upcoming meeting.
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