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Mrs L gave me a kit for Christmas to find out where I came from. There are a few who could have told her that without money being spent.

Anyway I'm:-

73% English and Welsh
15% Scots and Irish
9% Germanic
3% Norwegian

So 88% British, not bad really.

Which company did you use?

Ancestry as my wife have been researching the family tree through them.

Can you do it anonymously?
Ancestry.com is part of the Mormon mission to catalogue everybody.
Just don't want my DNA shared with LEO or insurance companies, which these companies do.

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Originally Posted by Octang Frye (Post 12644420)

Can you do it anonymously?

I don't believe so, certainly wasn't an option when I got my wife a kit last year thru Ancestry.

We had ours done last September with myheritage.com...great fun.

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Originally Posted by Octang Frye (Post 12644420)

Can you do it anonymously?
Ancestry.com is part of the Mormon mission to catalogue everybody.
Just don't want my DNA shared with LEO or insurance companies, which these companies do.

Ancestry has this to say

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Ancestryâ€™s spokesperson offered these assurances: â€œWe do not and will not sell DNA data to insurers, employers, health providers or third-party marketers and will only share DNA data with researchers if the customer has consented.

I checked the boxes for my data to not be shared.

That's how they got those killers recently. I want to be under the radar.

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Originally Posted by Octang Frye (Post 12644560)

That's how they got those killers recently. I want to be under the radar.

In some.of those cases the companies involved were not aware police were using their service to locate people.

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Ancestry.com is part of the Mormon mission to catalogue everybody.
Just don't want my DNA shared with LEO or insurance companies, which these companies do.

Will be skipping this then...

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Originally Posted by civilservant (Post 12644805)

Will be skipping this then...

Ancestry :-

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Law Enforcement Requests Outside the United States:
Depending on the jurisdiction of the requesting law enforcement agency, a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request or letter rogatory may be required to compel the disclosure of records. This is because our usersâ€™ account data can only be accessed by Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (located in the United States) and Ancestry Ireland Unlimited Company (located in Ireland). International law enforcement authorities may also submit requests for emergency disclosure. We will provide responsive records in accordance with applicable law and our policies.

Law Enforcement Requests in the United States:
Ancestry will release basic subscriber information as defined in 18 USC Â§ 2703(c)(2) about Ancestry users to law enforcement only in response to a valid trial, grand jury or administrative subpoena.

Ancestry will release additional account information or transactional information pertaining to an account (such as search terms, but not including the contents of communications) only in response to a court order issued pursuant to 18 USC Â§ 2703(d).

Contents of communications and any data relating to the DNA of an Ancestry user will be released only pursuant to a valid search warrant from a government agency with proper jurisdiction.

If we receive a valid request under U.S. law to preserve records that constitute potentially relevant evidence in legal proceedings, we will preserve, but not disclose, a temporary snapshot of the relevant account records for 90 days pending service of valid legal process as described above

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Originally Posted by lansbury (Post 12644414)

Ancestry as my wife have been researching the family tree through them.

Howdy, did your wife have any success on the family tree research with Ancestry?

From time to time they offer a 'free weekend', so I gave it a try a couple of years ago, it didn't give any hits on either parent... Obviously I wasn't going to sign up given that non-result.

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Originally Posted by BuckinghamshireBoy (Post 12646021)

Living people are largely protected. Youâ€™d need to provide that information yourself.

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Originally Posted by BritInParis (Post 12646029)

Living people are largely protected. Youâ€™d need to provide that information yourself.

Both parents were deceased, I gave dates and places of birth.

Nada.

My partner and I signed up for both ancestry.com and 23and me early last year. Both results came back similar which was reassuring. She put her results out for all to see as she was adopted at birth and 50 plus years later had no clue as to her blood siblings. Couple of months ago she had a 'hit' from her blood brother. They met in Colorado where he lives recently and both were born in Minnesota. He said he had heard a rumour from a Cousin at his fathers funeral years ago that mother had a child before they married. There's more siblings that have not been told until he goes back north in the summer and mother is still alive! exciting,anxious nervy times for her and I've found a paper trail of my american fathers ancestors back to early 1700s Scotland where I've never visited even though I lived in England for 50 years!