Thanks for the tips! I’ll give 'em a try. I misunderstood your remark to @10kitkat1969 that seemed to say that accounts first created with Google credentials could not be linked to the new PTC accounts
Dang I forgot about that, you’re completely right that’s what I said. Looking now it looks like I was definitely wrong. @10kitkat1969 I was wrong! 
Because this official post seems to suggest you can:
“
- Create a PTC account at club.pokemon.com if you haven’t already.
- Open Pokémon GO.
- Tap the Main Menu button.
- Tap the Settings button in the top-right corner.
- Tap Account.
- Tap the Link button under the Linked Accounts section.
- Follow the prompts to log in to your PTC account.
”
I must have seen an outdated or unreliable source earlier, because I remember now reading somewhere that you couldn’t 
Anyway, thanks for that correction @vorgriff3!
Source for above instructions: Get a Super Incubator and 1,000 Stardust when you link and validate your Pokémon Trainer Club account – Pokémon GO
Got it. First step – Date of Birth … I have to hit the previous-month button over 700 times … good bleeping grief. Who thought up that user-hostile interface? So much for taking 5 minutes to do that; I’ll have to come back to this later. Like maybe after Easter…
Click the arrow I’ve highlighted by the yellow circle:
To open this menu:
That should make things a little easier! 
Well hopefully that means that they’re not discontinuing the Google log in!
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If they do, they’ll notice that was a huge mistake soon enough. I’ve seen them make the most questionable decisions, but I don’t think they’d discontinue Google support.
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