Your Genealogy Matters

Seriously, don't go there. So in the past couple weeks, I wrote about the people who are crabbing about others on Ancestry who do not either make their trees public, or have no trees at all, which I have dubbed Tested With No Tree, or TWNT. Said complainers find it very rude of those TWNT people who are not sharing what they know. How unfair is life that the complainers have shared their trees, but the TWNT people are causing them great consternation. And I pointed out their problem is their own.  Because it is.  They created it.  Now they whine hoping that something will hear them and their needs. As you can tell, I don't have a lot of sympathy of these people.  We ALL would love to have the answers we crave dished up and served to us.  How great would life be, right? There is nothing that says anyone HAS TO upload a tree.  Nothing. Nada. BUT, and this is the bigger consideration - what if the person/people you have been badgering to r...

8 AM, Since last night at 10 PM - yes, I am an old man - nothing had changed for me except I was upright and stumbling about like a new born baby mouse trying to get my eyes open, so I could make coffee so I could WAKE UP. 9 AM, Nothing had changed except decision to have a second cup of coffee.  Everything as it was last night on Ancestry. 9:55 AM, checked Ancestry, nothing.  Still 4 tests in processing. 10 AM, JACKPOT.  Had I not needed to reboot my computer, I would have missed it, but there it was "3 Test in Processing."  I greedily make the husband take the dogs outside, even though it is raining and it was my turn to take them out. 10:05 AM, Well my eldest half brother is my half brother.  No surprise there.  The big surprise is our joint DNA only account for seven pages of my 400 pages of matches. 10:35 AM, The DAILY DOUBLE comes in - "2 Tests" in processing. And BTW, no emails from Ancestry to say "Hey - your tests came in." 10:45,...

So I went to RootsTech this year, and this happened: Ancestry had an amazing deal on DNA Kits and sold a boatload of them, with a limit of "five" per person at an amazing discount. And then afterward, a boatload of these tests got used and they all got shipped to Ancestry for processing. Imagine, thousands and thousands of tests all got shipped into Ancestry's DNA processing center, in window of a month.  And this was all on top of the tests from Christmas that were given as gifts that got mailed in and were received, and were already waiting for processing. INTO THIS, four of my tests - three for family, one for a client - sat, waiting for processing. About six weeks into just sitting in receiving, two of my tests plopped into processing.  Not the first one received, but the middle two.  And then, nothing. I mean N-O-T-H-I-N-G. And this concerned me.  Because the first test had been received two weeks before the first one to plop into processing. Bu...