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I am sad at what is now happening to the 23andMe company — that it has filed for bankruptcy, and is being sold.
23andMe holds an important place in the history Genealogy — and in particular Genetic Genealogy.
Although 23andMe had many applications, Genetic Genealogy was by far the most popular usage of it.
I.e., using genetics to understand ones family history.
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23andMe is (also) a social-network.
A social-network that includes both living and deceased people.
Some of this is expressed in the form of a family-tree. But it goes beyond that, as living people can (and do) communicate with each other, too.
And, there is a recommendation system of who to connect, based on if you are potentially related to each other or not.
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I have long thought that an open-source Genealogical social-network (including a Genetic Genealogy components) would benefit the Genealogy and Genetic Genealogy communities.
It would be straightforward to create it as Fediverse / OpenSocial software — using the same ActivityPub, ActivityStreams, NodeInfo, WebFinger, etc technology that the rest of the Fediverse uses.
#23AndMe #DeSo #Genealogy #Genetics #Genomics #GeneticGenealogy #Fediverse #OpenSocial #OpenSource #SocialMedia #SocialWeb
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To preserve what 23andMe was like, since it is not clear if it will continue to exist long-term, I am posting some screenshots of it.
This is of the https://you.23andme.com/ page.
This is the console screen you see after you sign-in.
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This is of the https://you.23andme.com/tools/relatives/map/ page.
This shows a map. On the map is the locations of where the people you are connected to and related to live. Although it only shows people who shared where they live. If they didn't share that information, then they don't show up on the map.
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This is from https://you.23andme.com/family/relatives/ page.
It shows you a list of people who you seem to have a DNA match with, and might be related to.
Although, it can make mistakes. Including about how you are related to the person.
The idea is, you would connect to these people, discuss how you might be related, maybe compare your DNA more closely
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23andMe also displays your family-tree at https://you.23andme.com/family/tree/
But, I don't think their's is the nicest visualization for that. So, won't screenshot it.
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