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Old 18-07-21, 10:17
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Oh, except I just realised I can't use Google Chrome on this desktop computer! But I tried a browser which is based on Chrome, and yes, I get the EDIT button on this computer and can type in a note and save it. Thank you! I guess I would have to zoom out in my browser on the laptop to be able to do the same.
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Old 18-07-21, 21:45
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I could have sworn I'd tried zooming out with no luck, but I've just had a go, and it works for me too, on Firefox! It still doesn't work on Opera, which I generally use (I can edit but not save), but I can live with that.

It still needs tweaking, though, because as you found, the Edit button's initially invisible, so nobody's going to think of zooming out.
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I was hoping that after the 23rd of July, the "generating matches - please wait" message wouldn't appear any more, but it still does. I am interested to see that I now have a match which is classed as maternal, although my mother hasn't taken a DNA test. It can't just be that they class all which are not paternal as maternal, or I would have more than one! I wonder why that particular match? We only share 12 cM's. I have clicked to see matches in common with them but I have to wait for "generating matches" all over again. It's taking a long time - will it have to do this every time I want to look at matches in common with anyone?!
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Having looked at the "help" section, I think it has classed this person as a maternal match because their family tree links with mine on that side? I had a quick look at their tree to try to see where it linked but then I got an error message before I could see anything that I recognised.

However, to get to their tree I had to open my match list in another tab, and I can say for sure that the match list "fluctuation" which was supposed to be over by 23rd July is still going on, since in one tab I have 4403 paternal matches out of 9359, and in the other 5569 out of 9359.
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The new chromosome painter has now gone live.

I'm still trying to work out how to do anything useful with it.
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Old 15-09-21, 19:12
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Yesterday I had a total of 9457 matches, 5619 paternal, and now I have 9458 matches, 5624 paternal. So have I got 5 new matches, all paternal, and 4 old maternal matches have deleted their accounts? Or are they still not sure which matches are paternal and which aren't, even though my Dad's DNA is also on there?
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I'm trying to work through my list of matches, but it is very slow progress, because every time I click to view the "in common with" for a match, there is no way of getting back to the position in the list that I was up to, and I have to start paging through from the beginning of the list all over again. (It is not like Ancestry, where you can avoid that problem by right-clicking each time and opening in a new tab - there is no option to do that on FTDNA.) I would really like to be able to see how many matches in common each entry has before clicking, so I could not bother with the many which have thousands, and just concentrate on those with a manageable number of matches in common.
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Yes, that's really irritating.
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Old 22-09-21, 17:35
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This sounds interesting - do you think that it means you can work out where your DNA matches someone else and then where the DNA is likely to originate from?
That's what I was hoping, but the chromosome painter seems to be fairly useless, except for people who have unusual ethnicities, because it only paints on the basis of ethnic origin.

There is a website that paints on the basis of your matches, but I haven't tried it yet:

https://dnapainter.com/blog/why-map-your-chromosomes/
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I have tried out DNA Painter and it was easier than I thought it would be. You can copy and paste the info from FTDNA, GEDmatch, etc into DNA Painter.
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