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Site is pretty grueling, though. I have dozens and dozens of DNA sharing requests, but it takes like 4 clicks for every single one to OK it. Sometimes they are people I knew anyway once I see their name, sometimes it ends up being an interesting conversation with just someone from the same area as my great grandparents, but every time it's an annoying click fest to find out.


Agree. It's definitely a sub-par user experience. You often have to sift through dozens of connection invitations for people who clearly haven't found you on the cousin identification list -- instead they've simply searched by country name, or city name, and are randomly asking people if they might be related. Given that the system has a pretty reliable way of identifying 10th-or-closer cousins and immediate family relations, it seems pointless to have any other way to connect with people on the site. More frustrating still is that most of the time when you try to make contact with people who have been identified as very likely 3rd or 4th cousins, those invitations are met with silence.




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