Accepting JOIN requests in a yDNA surname project

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and do we have any idea when this feature is going to be corrected?...

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Thank you Jim Barrett and Contemplator for your opinions. Curry....

[oma04]

In my yDNA project, the JOIN request is not accepted automatically. I must manually accept the kit. This prevents tester kits of females with Family Finder and mtDNA tests from joining.

When a person with or without a FTDNA kit number submits a JOIN request, I receive email from FTDNA...

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goal of Stevenson project


From our MyGroups pages:
The goal of the STEVENSON Surname Project is to distinguish between STEVENSON ancestral lines, worldwide. Any reasonable spelling variant is included (please feel free to suggest a variant you feel we have missed)....Our...

[oma04]

to Jim Barrett



These kits were a part of the World Families project when I became administrator. I only left them in as a courtesy to the World Families administrator. As World Families is no longer overseeing and managing the Stevenson project, I feel atdna testing...

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Group Project Access Only

I would like to hear from other project managers on how they are handling this issue. I began with 20 of 203 members with Group Project Access Only access on 24 May. After bulk email to the 20 members, I still have 12 who remain at this level.

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new changes to access



I have sent this message to the 20 members of my Stevenson Project with Group Project Access Only.

"to access your Project Preferences page:

1. Sign in to your myFTDNA account.
2. In the upper-right corner...

[oma04]

I am sure I am typical of most project administrators, in that I spent most of yesterday with my Member Information list from GAP in order to understand the new accesses.

20 of our 207 members have opted for Group Access Only. Even with Limited Access given to me as Administrator,...

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work in progress

" So we are closely watching FTDNA work in progress"
at least they were proactive on one front: The Member Information Report now has the added columns:
Access Granted and Publicly Shared DNA Results.

Both will be a real time...

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YSearch is gone

thank goodness it has gone by the wayside. Is it due to the new GDPR? Who knows but the button disappeared sometime last week from the matches list.

[oma04]

ySearch option

I just attempted to access a project member yDNA results for YSearch and the option no longer appears at the bottom of the Results page. Looks like to me it is already gone!

[oma04]

Stevenson Surname project

I think we have to use our own good judgement until FTDNA gives us specifics. ie I removed the members contact name and email from our Pedigree page which is public. Contact will have to be made through me or my co admin.

[oma04]

name of members public



I have chosen to only display most distant ancestor with the kit number on ydna results which are public. This protects the name of the tester to the general public. I have not seen any project who displays the member names to the public on the...

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access to member accounts by group administrators

another startling new message today when I signed into a member account selected Personal Information and then Manage Projects tab. Here is the statement above the list of projects:

"Important: Please review the settings...

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email addresses

" Controllers and processors must store contact information separately from “results."

As administrator, I already see at least one issue that FTDNA will have to address. In ydna matches reporting, after opening the match list, the tester has...