Why Do People Pay For An Ancestry DNA Test But Fail To Respond To Messages ?

[brigidmac]

Craclyn I know there are 2 different wayss to send messages but I forget which works best I think I usually go into matches profile then send it in the envelope rather than the speech bubble

Jill even if match is closed if you look at your shared matches then use the search function for specific names and places you can gradually work out how they connect I colour code Smith Jones
Llanorman and Birkenhead ...so can sometimes separate which great grandparents they descend from ..tho of course lots have Smith Jones and Roberts from subsequent or prievious marriages too ...but places like Bugbrook Cambuslang and jacobstadt help me to pin point more of them .
Unfortunately American documents  don't specify aces of origin beyond England Scotland Russia and even those definition s and always accurate .

[Craclyn]

The new messaging system with the speech bubble is not available to all of us yet. It is being rolled out gradually. Apparently the last to get it will be those who have used messaging a lot and have messages sorted into folders.

[Liviani]

I had an issue with a triangulated match. Myself and one other are trying to find where we match (still a work in progress). It turned out that the third match had only done a DNA test to find their birth mother and they did find her. They were not interested in genealogy outside of this at all and had done no research into family history.

I had to respect that and leave it there.

[mkr123]

It's been about 18 months since I had my analysis results. In that time I've had about a 75% success rate in getting replies from people. What really puzzles me is why nobody has tried to contact me.

It makes me feel very alone in this great big scary universe...

Martin

No one has contacted me either about our DNA matches.  I've sent out emails and only received a couple of responses.  They probably took the test but don't have a paid subscription. 

[Dyingout]

I think the list of reasons against is missing one important one.

The Christmas and Birthday present scenario

Bought, sent but not bothered with the result.

[Redroger]

Very likely true about presents, probably unsolicited.

[Sinann]

I sent a match a message 19 March 2018, got a reply this evening.
How mad is that......

[Guy Etchells]

Probably the main reason is due to something many genealogists used to mention on mailing lists and forums.
The fact that many genealogists only follow their main lines and not their ancillary lines. This means they may be told of a match but due to lack of "wide" research do not have any names in common.
Cheers
Guy

[Romilly]

I expect that the numbers of people taking DNA Tests will rocket when the Ant and Dec TV Programme about using DNA to trace your ancestors is aired:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ojx/

Who knows, - perhaps one of my Matches will finally reply?

Romilly