08-07-2024, 07:26 PM
I like the David Lomas programme, but sometimes wonder how many people they have to turn away because they can't find the relatives.
The net is a double edged sword, able to be used for good or bad, as most things are. I stumbled over an ancestry site years ago which I can't recall the name of now & found a relative looking for members of our family on my dad's side. I eventually made contact which was an excellent move because the person was a genealogist who had been unable to find out particular line & was extremely pleased to make contact at last.
The upshot of it was that eventually she sent us a copy of the family tree which she'd researched back to the 1600s in Scotland.
On the more malevolent side of it though, there doesn't seem to be a great deal we can do to prevent our DNA being grabbed in one way or another - or what might be done with it.
Its the stuff of the scariest sci fi imaginable, & we are the most harmful species on the planet - not the most benign combination.
The net is a double edged sword, able to be used for good or bad, as most things are. I stumbled over an ancestry site years ago which I can't recall the name of now & found a relative looking for members of our family on my dad's side. I eventually made contact which was an excellent move because the person was a genealogist who had been unable to find out particular line & was extremely pleased to make contact at last.
The upshot of it was that eventually she sent us a copy of the family tree which she'd researched back to the 1600s in Scotland.
On the more malevolent side of it though, there doesn't seem to be a great deal we can do to prevent our DNA being grabbed in one way or another - or what might be done with it.
Its the stuff of the scariest sci fi imaginable, & we are the most harmful species on the planet - not the most benign combination.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)