DNA Testing
Feb 26th 2019, 6:10 am
#1
Thread Starter
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Location: Milwaukie, Oregon
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DNA Testing
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.
Anyway I'm:-
73% English and Welsh
15% Scots and Irish
9% Germanic
3% Norwegian
So 88% British, not bad really.
Feb 26th 2019, 6:11 am
#2
Joined: Feb 2012
Location: Not in Paris
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Re: DNA Testing
Which company did you use?
Feb 26th 2019, 6:14 am
#3
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Re: DNA Testing
Ancestry as my wife have been researching the family tree through them.
Feb 26th 2019, 6:23 am
#4
Peace onion
Joined: Jul 2006
Location: Denver
Posts: 5,686
Re: DNA Testing
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.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.
Feb 26th 2019, 8:52 am
#6
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Re: DNA Testing
We had ours done last September with myheritage.com...great fun.
Feb 26th 2019, 9:00 am
#7
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Re: DNA Testing
Ancestry’s spokesperson offered these assurances: “We 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.
Feb 26th 2019, 9:45 am
#8
Peace onion
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Location: Denver
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Re: DNA Testing
That's how they got those killers recently. I want to be under the radar.
Feb 26th 2019, 11:14 pm
#10
Often not so civil...
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Location: The Boonies, GA
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Re: DNA Testing
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.
Just don't want my DNA shared with LEO or insurance companies, which these companies do.
Feb 28th 2019, 4:44 pm
#11
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Re: DNA Testing
Ancestry :-
Ancestry’s spokesperson offered these assurances: “We 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.
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 users’ 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 § 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 § 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
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 users’ 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 § 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 § 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
Feb 28th 2019, 11:44 pm
#12
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Re: DNA Testing
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.
Feb 28th 2019, 11:57 pm
#13
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Location: Not in Paris
Posts: 18,221
Re: DNA Testing
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.
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.
Mar 1st 2019, 12:39 am
#15
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Re: DNA Testing
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!
