Random GEDmatch kits

**Leto** · 12-15-2019, 05:00 PM

People who didn't collect hundreds of kits for a few years cannot understand what a loss that is. Davidski is such a scumbag, I didn't expect him to be so mean.

**Mingle** · 12-15-2019, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by Leto

Really? Are people in the US or Russia not being deleted? Many Russians I have don't live in Russia (23andme is unavailable in Russia). I checked a friend of mine, he lives in Russia and hadn't logged in for months. It wasn't working. Then I messaged him asking to agree to the TOS and when he did, the kit worked for me.

Not all the kits I have are blocked. Maybe the kits of people in the US aren't blocked and all other ones are?

Agree this really sucks. They should've given at least a week's warning before this so we could use that time to save the results. :/

**Leto** · 12-15-2019, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by Mingle

Not all the kits I have are blocked. Maybe the kits of people in the US aren't blocked and all other ones are?

Agree this really sucks. They should've given at least a week's warning before this so we could use that time to save the results. :/

They don't even send notification emails to the users. I didn't receive any for example.

**Mingle** · 12-15-2019, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by Leto

They don't even send notification emails to the users. I didn't receive any for example.

Yeah. But the least they could've done though was give a warning on their website that they're making some changes and many results won't be available anymore. Some of us have gone through a lot of trouble to collect many kits. They probably don't know we exist.

**Lucas** · 12-15-2019, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by Mingle

Yeah. But the least they could've done though was give a warning on their website that they're making some changes and many results won't be available anymore. Some of us have gone through a lot of trouble to collect many kits. They probably don't know we exist.

Luckily what was most interesting I collected before and run through calc

Few thousands kits.

**FinalFlash** · 12-15-2019, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by Mingle

Yeah. But the least they could've done though was give a warning on their website that they're making some changes and many results won't be available anymore. Some of us have gone through a lot of trouble to collect many kits. They probably don't know we exist.

More than half the kits I've compiled for us are now lost. The good thing is that the averages haven't really changed much.

**Peterski** · 12-15-2019, 07:30 PM

You should have saved the emails alongside kit numbers. I was doing that.

Then you can contact people even if their kit was deleted from GEDmatch.

PS:

But some kits are not deleted, they just haven't accepted new terms yet. I also haven't done this yet because I had no time, so my kits look like they are deleted (I tried to run my own results in some calculators and it says "kit not found", siimply because I have not accepted the new terms yet).

Check the kits I uploaded from this thread, all of them are "kit not found":

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...hbouring-areas

You need to manually select "I agree to transfer" for every single kit, and I have many kits... It will take a long time.

**FinalFlash** · 12-15-2019, 07:35 PM

Originally Posted by Peterski

You should have saved the emails alongside kit numbers. I was doing that.

Then you can contact people even if their kit was deleted from GEDmatch.

Too many damn emails to save lol. Oh well, at least some of them work.

**Leto** · 12-19-2019, 09:30 PM

Originally Posted by vbnetkhio

all kits remain blocked until the owners manually unblock them afaik.
and most of gedmatch are people who uploaded 5 years ago and don't log in regularly, so most kits are lost forever pretty much.

This is what the owner Curtis Rogers says:
It has been reported on social media that there is a mass exodus of kits from the GEDmatch database. There has been a temporary drop in the database size only because privacy policies in place in the various countries where our users reside require citizens to specifically approve the transfer of their data to Verogen. As users grant permission, that data will again be visible on the site. We are proactively reaching out to these users to encourage them to consent to the transfer.

So there is some hope. My question is how do they know where a user resides? I may as well upload my data in one country and then move to another.

**vbnetkhio** · 12-19-2019, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by Leto

This is what the owner Curtis Rogers says:
It has been reported on social media that there is a mass exodus of kits from the GEDmatch database. There has been a temporary drop in the database size only because privacy policies in place in the various countries where our users reside require citizens to specifically approve the transfer of their data to Verogen. As users grant permission, that data will again be visible on the site. We are proactively reaching out to these users to encourage them to consent to the transfer.

So there is some hope. My question is how do they know where a user resides? I may as well upload my data in one country and then move to another.

i think they check your last login ip address. you can change your status (EU/non-EU) in the settings.