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My Heritage have redesigned their mailbox and made a total mess of it. They no longer provide separate in and out boxes, but have merged it all into a single list by threads, in reverse chronological order.

The thread system is very unreliable. Sometimes, messages that used to be part of threads now appear as isolated single messages. That means you have to scroll through the entire list of threads  to see whether there was any follow up.

To make it worse, there seems to be no way to search the mail box. And if you send a message to someone, the system does not seem to tell you whether you have contacted that person before. 

I uploaded my DNA results from Ancestry to My Heritage 16 months ago. I also got the advanced DNA features for free because of some promotion they were running.

My wife did the same a couple of months later, though she had to pay a one off fee of about £30 to unlock the advanced features, supposedly 'for ever'.

The chromosome browser has been particularly helpful. But yesterday, we both found it had vanished and there is no way to access it. And we can't even now see the location of the DNA matches (chromosome, position). So, My Heritage has suddenly become much less useful to us.

Has anyone else had the same problem?

I see even just a couple of weeks ago, My Heritage were again running a promotion: "October 1 to October 8, 2023, you can upload your DNA data to MyHeritage and get access to all advanced DNA features, including the Ethnicity Estimate, absolutely free — forever!" https://blog.myheritage.com/2023/10/upload-your-dna-data-to-myheritage-and-enjoy-free-access-to-all-dna-features/

Thanks Little Nell, that seems the most plausible explanation.

Peter

I have a couple of questions about some baptisms I have been looking at. I have only seen indexes on Ancestry (and apparently sourced from Family Search)—not the original registers. The parents were John Charlton and Mary Blay, who married in White Waltham in 1790. There were about a dozen baptisms between 1790 and 1809. The index records most of the baptisms under both White Waltham and Wasing (separately, though on the same day).
Here are my questions:
1.   Is it likely that the baptisms actually occurred in both parishes (perhaps because of family connections to both places)? Or does the index just use this approach to show that the baptism occurred in one parish but that the family were living in another parish?
2.   The index uses only Mary Blay’s maiden name (Blay), not her married name (Charlton). Does this indicate that the register definitely shows her maiden name? Or could this detail just be something inserted by the compiler?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
Peter

Thanks trish1120. I hadn’t looked at the online GRO index. I have now checked it from 1837 to 1864. The 6 known children of William Povey and Mary Ann Jauncey / Johncey are all listed with the mother’s maiden name as Johncey (or in one case Johncy). No other children are listed for parents with those names.
Looking at the records again led to me discovering an error in the parish baptism for this couple’s daughter Mary Ann Povey. She was baptised with her brother John on 18 December 1842 at St Luke, Chelsea. The baptism register says Mary Ann was born on 4 July 1842 and John on 29 November 1842. But those dates are less than 5 months apart.
The GRO index lists Mary in Q3 1841 and John in Q4 1842. So, Mary was in fact born on 4 July 1841.