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Iggy

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Ancestry is offering their DNA testing for $30.00 off, that is $69.00 folks. Today is the deadline. Oh, if you don't like Ancestry - ALL of the others are offering theirs at discounts too.
I purchased two kits for Hubby and myself - this years birthday gifts - will update with the results.

I went with Ancestry because both Hubby and I have accounts with FamilySearch & Ancestry and a good chunk of my relatives (who are not LDS) also belong to Ancestry and three of them have FamilySearch & Famicity accounts. I am hoping that there will be distant *Cousins* on Hubby's side who have Ancestry accounts and if there are any who have FamilySearch accounts we will be Over The Moon!

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I am trying to connect with living relatives - some of which hasn't been that hard really. What is hard is getting them to cut loose with the family stories/lore. If only I had the money to travel to them armed with a good tape recorder, camera, and camcorder even, and hundreds of $$ worth of blank tapes.

I would even pay for a kit for my surviving brother to take the test so that I can get some DNA information on our Dad's line. BUT, he is still avoiding me because of some past childhood hurt he encountered and blames me for. I wasn't there - so it wasn't me. His son could take the test, but I would rather it be just my brother.

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I am such a conspiracy theorist that I am amazed people voluntarily send their personal information complete with DNA to an outfit for them to use however they see fit...

But don't worry, I'm not so wack that I go to all lengths to keep myself anonymous on the internet.  :D

 

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Ancestry doesn't do that. As for personal information - my mailing address is not personal. Besides, neither Husband nor I have any skeletons in our own closet to worry about, and we are actually looking for ALL of the family skeleton's AND their stories.

I do not put out our real names, pinpoint our actual physical address via internet forums, so, in that, I am a wack.

The God-given gift of discernment I have has indicated that Ancestry can be trusted. I stand on that. 

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My husband and I both used Ancestry for our DNA analysis. It’s so interesting. My youngest sister also did hers through Ancestry and it’s fascinating to see how different we are, yet Ancestry was able to connect us as siblings.

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I did it because I don't know my father, so I am interested in finding info about that side of my family. So far, NASA, all the relatives are from my mom's side. I do have two friends-from my ward and stake- that were adopted and found their bio families and had happy reunions though. 

Beyond that I learned that I am a European Mutt, mostly from England. I can call myself Irish though, and about 2% Jewish so that tickles me.

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5 hours ago, Iggy said:

Ancestry doesn't do that. As for personal information - my mailing address is not personal. Besides, neither Husband nor I have any skeletons in our own closet to worry about, and we are actually looking for ALL of the family skeleton's AND their stories.

I do not put out our real names, pinpoint our actual physical address via internet forums, so, in that, I am a wack.

The God-given gift of discernment I have has indicated that Ancestry can be trusted. I stand on that. 

My understanding is that what often happens is that law enforcement sends a sample of DNA to Ancestry just as any other customer would, asking to be connected (as any customer can) with other Ancestry customers who are probably related (as those folks themselves have agreed).  From there it’s a simple matter to begin talking to relatives of the DNA source, build out the family tree, figure out who lives where, and identify your suspect with enough probability to get a warrant and/or bring the guy in for questioning.  Offer him a drink of water water, swab his saliva from the discarded cup/bottle, get a match, and there’s your conviction.  

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2 hours ago, Just_A_Guy said:

My understanding is that what often happens is that law enforcement sends a sample of DNA to Ancestry just as any other customer would, asking to be connected (as any customer can) with other Ancestry customers who are probably related.....

According to a YouTube video I watched, they caught a serial killer that way.

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2 hours ago, Just_A_Guy said:

My understanding is that what often happens is that law enforcement sends a sample of DNA to Ancestry just as any other customer would, asking to be connected (as any customer can) with other Ancestry customers who are probably related (as those folks themselves have agreed).  From there it’s a simple matter to begin talking to relatives of the DNA source, build out the family tree, figure out who lives where, and identify your suspect with enough probability to get a warrant and/or bring the guy in for questioning.  Offer him a drink of water water, swab his saliva from the discarded cup/bottle, get a match, and there’s your conviction.  

I am okay with that like I said - Husband and I don't have any skeletons in the closet.

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11 hours ago, Just_A_Guy said:

My understanding is that what often happens is that law enforcement sends a sample of DNA to Ancestry just as any other customer would, asking to be connected (as any customer can) with other Ancestry customers who are probably related (as those folks themselves have agreed).  From there it’s a simple matter to begin talking to relatives of the DNA source, build out the family tree, figure out who lives where, and identify your suspect with enough probability to get a warrant and/or bring the guy in for questioning.  Offer him a drink of water water, swab his saliva from the discarded cup/bottle, get a match, and there’s your conviction.  

 

8 hours ago, Iggy said:

I am okay with that like I said - Husband and I don't have any skeletons in the closet.

That's not the only thing they can do.

Basically, Ancestry now OWNS your DNA sample and can do whatever they want to do with it.  For example - and I'm just pulling this off the fringes of my brain - it can use your DNA sample to give to a research outfit that is working on a biological weapon to wipe out your entire family tree.  This is most especially a concern to Jews because they have had that specific experience of people trying to wipe them out of the face of the earth.

But, in the case of convictions - relative DNA has big DNA marker commonality such that, a relative of yours - including distant ones - that have specifically avoided giving DNA samples can now be identified by your DNA sample.  So, you may be free with your closet but that doesn't mean your relative wants his closet opened even if he doesn't have skeletons in it either.  Having grown up in a political family, I know for a fact that the lack of skeletons in one's closet doesn't mean it will be skeleton free when someone opens it.  There are a lot of reasons somebody would contrive to put a skeleton in there.  Especially with what we now know about Fake News and the seedy activities of Intelligence Agencies.

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38 minutes ago, anatess2 said:

 

That's not the only thing they can do.

Basically, Ancestry now OWNS your DNA sample and can do whatever they want to do with it.  For example - and I'm just pulling this off the fringes of my brain - it can use your DNA sample to give to a research outfit that is working on a biological weapon to wipe out your entire family tree.  This is most especially a concern to Jews because they have had that specific experience of people trying to wipe them out of the face of the earth.

But, in the case of convictions - relative DNA has big DNA marker commonality such that, a relative of yours - including distant ones - that have specifically avoided giving DNA samples can now be identified by your DNA sample.  So, you may be free with your closet but that doesn't mean your relative wants his closet opened even if he doesn't have skeletons in it either.  Having grown up in a political family, I know for a fact that the lack of skeletons in one's closet doesn't mean it will be skeleton free when someone opens it.  There are a lot of reasons somebody would contrive to put a skeleton in there.  Especially with what we now know about Fake News and the seedy activities of Intelligence Agencies.

There are less-dire concerns, too; like whether one’s DNA constitutes “intellectual property”.  If I have a genetic marker that makes me immune to—say—prostate cancer, and Ancestry sells my DNA sequence to a lab that manages to replicate it and use it to develop a vaccine that makes millions—shouldn’t I be compensated? 

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3 hours ago, Just_A_Guy said:

There are less-dire concerns, too; like whether one’s DNA constitutes “intellectual property”.  If I have a genetic marker that makes me immune to—say—prostate cancer, and Ancestry sells my DNA sequence to a lab that manages to replicate it and use it to develop a vaccine that makes millions—shouldn’t I be compensated? 

 

4 hours ago, anatess2 said:

 

That's not the only thing they can do.

Basically, Ancestry now OWNS your DNA sample and can do whatever they want to do with it.  For example - and I'm just pulling this off the fringes of my brain - it can use your DNA sample to give to a research outfit that is working on a biological weapon to wipe out your entire family tree.  This is most especially a concern to Jews because they have had that specific experience of people trying to wipe them out of the face of the earth.

But, in the case of convictions - relative DNA has big DNA marker commonality such that, a relative of yours - including distant ones - that have specifically avoided giving DNA samples can now be identified by your DNA sample.  So, you may be free with your closet but that doesn't mean your relative wants his closet opened even if he doesn't have skeletons in it either.  Having grown up in a political family, I know for a fact that the lack of skeletons in one's closet doesn't mean it will be skeleton free when someone opens it.  There are a lot of reasons somebody would contrive to put a skeleton in there.  Especially with what we now know about Fake News and the seedy activities of Intelligence Agencies.

Both of you enough of your *The Sky Is Falling* nonsense.  Neither one of you even went to Ancestry dot com to research what they do and do NOT do with the DNA information. I did. Before I even purchased the DNA kits. 

@Just_A_Guy I actually expected more from you. Such as Due Diligence.

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@Iggy, thanks for posting that.  

@anatess2 can speak for herself; but that statement doesn’t appear to rule out the law enforcement scenario I noted; and at any rate, they explicitly say they will comply with subpoenas.  

As for medical research—it’s awesome that they don’t release the genetic sequence itself without the informed consent form, but I note that the consent form explicitly says the donor will *not* be compensated for their sample or any benefits derived therefrom.  So users of the service still need to be aware that if they sign that “informed consent” form, they are basically paying for the right to give a commercial lab the opportunity to make thousands or millions of dollars off the donor’s DNA.  It’s basically like buying $99 worth of lottery tickets and then giving them all away.  

Lots of folks will probably be happy to do that, whether for the warmth of knowing they’ve “advanced science” or for the thrill of the insight they’re getting into their family trees.  And that’s fine—as long as they understand the issues involved.  

By the way—for my “due diligence”, you now owe me $150 in legal fees. You can pay me in root beer, as @pam will attest. ;) 

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50 minutes ago, Just_A_Guy said:

By the way—for my “due diligence”, you now owe me $150 in legal fees. You can pay me in root beer

Do you have a preference as to whether your fees are paid in a lot of off-brand root beer or less of the artisanal stuff? Just in case I am ever in need of your services.

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6 minutes ago, SilentOne said:

Do you have a preference as to whether your fees are paid in a lot of off-brand root beer or less of the artisanal stuff? Just in case I am ever in need of your services.

I’m not that hoity-toity.  Anything without caffeine will do just fine.  ;) 

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5 hours ago, Just_A_Guy said:

By the way—for my “due diligence”, you now owe me $150 in legal fees. You can pay me in root beer, as @pam will attest. ;) 

 

So sorry, I did not ask you to do that for me. It was for your own information. I already read it and was totally fine with it.

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11 hours ago, Iggy said:

 

Both of you enough of your *The Sky Is Falling* nonsense.  Neither one of you even went to Ancestry dot com to research what they do and do NOT do with the DNA information. I did. Before I even purchased the DNA kits. 

@Just_A_Guy I actually expected more from you. Such as Due Diligence.

And just because you BOTH really pissed me off, here is AncestryDNA Privacy Statement in its ENTIRETY.

 

Quite an accusation there, Iggy.  I don't make statements without basis.

It's not my responsibility if you get pissed off by MY OPINION.

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5 hours ago, Iggy said:

So sorry, I did not ask you to do that for me. It was for your own information. I already read it and was totally fine with it.

And I read it a few years ago and I'm not fine with it.  We can have different stances on things you know.

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6 hours ago, anatess2 said:

And I read it a few years ago and I'm not fine with it.  We can have different stances on things you know.

Lot's of things change in just a few years, as did Ancestry's policy of privacy. Had you looked it up again, you would have seen this.

So yes I CAN get pissed off by your opinion.

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On 4/25/2019 at 2:20 PM, Iggy said:

I am trying to connect with living relatives - some of which hasn't been that hard really. What is hard is getting them to cut loose with the family stories/lore. If only I had the money to travel to them armed with a good tape recorder, camera, and camcorder even, and hundreds of $$ worth of blank tapes.

Hello, Iggy. 

The 70s called.  They want their technology back.

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4 hours ago, Iggy said:

What a rude remark!

You were offended by that obvious joke?  I've spent some time trying to get myself to say I'm sorry.  But , no.  That was an obvious joke and you simply decided to be hurt by that.

Please tell me you were joking back, but not so obviously.

Tapes, camcorders, and you can't take a joke about using obsolete technology?

I guess that's the last time I try joking with you.

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