Ancestry dot com?

[Lilith7]

I have always been a bit dubious about what companies like Ancestry do with the information and the data vast numbers of customers pay them to take and hold, while giving up all your personal rights to your own genetic makeup, and that of all your relatives in the process.

So is this a good thing? And have you - like my daughter, been tempted into sharing her genetic heritage in exchange for a run down on who her ancestors might have been...

Some of the grandkids gave me one of their test thngys a few xmases ago, so i did the saliva thing & sent it off - nothing. Assuming the inner klutz had struck again i wasn't bothered & did the new replacement they sent...10 times!

Mind you, the final successful result on the 11th try may have had something to do with a few fairly stiff emails the grandkids had sent them..

I found it interesting especially when I realised that among the stuff I already knew about, there was likely to be a Viking or two.

As to the future possibilities, who knows what might be possible, either now or at some future point. The possible uses are somewhet scary - but really no one knows with certainty yet.