I study my family's genealogy, and have been paranoid about those DNA tests. I ended up studying all sets of grandparents over years instead. I'm actually still studying it. Anyway, some ancestry sites have forums especially for certain ancestries. One that my dads family came from, was the Rhineland-Palatinate area of Germany. There were folks that wanted to pay for other folks DNA tests, so they could establish a concrete list that came from that area, I haven't studied that part, or why it was of dire importance to them. Same with my Acadian family...they were looking mainly for the Kings Daughters decendents. I was thisclose to letting them pay for it when my brain reminded me that normally I'd need to commit a felony for LEO to get your DNA for something. Why would I willingly give, and maybe pay for that when I can trace most of my people with certainty? I might end up at the bad end of a crime investigation if 'someone' wanted to do that. But I definitely didn't think about my kids' safety being a problem. I hope these folks start going down and soon.
To my horror...(((Soros))) is a distant relative (if the path was right and I'm 99% sure) Oddly the Trumps are closer cousins on my moms side. I legit was horrified to see I had any path leading to sore eyes. I only looked it up because I discovered my grandma was baptized in a Hungarian church. Let's just say for me and my kids, I'm glad my paranoia took ahold of me and shook me before I did something silly and let someone who seemed too eager to get my DNA. I hope nobody uses these..it can shorten your research, the tests, but it seems that the easy way isn't always best...or even accurate.
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I study my family's genealogy, and have been paranoid about those DNA tests. I ended up studying all sets of grandparents over years instead. I'm actually still studying it. Anyway, some ancestry sites have forums especially for certain ancestries. One that my dads family came from, was the Rhineland-Palatinate area of Germany. There were folks that wanted to pay for other folks DNA tests, so they could establish a concrete list that came from that area, I haven't studied that part, or why it was of dire importance to them. Same with my Acadian family...they were looking mainly for the Kings Daughters decendents. I was thisclose to letting them pay for it when my brain reminded me that normally I'd need to commit a felony for LEO to get your DNA for something. Why would I willingly give, and maybe pay for that when I can trace most of my people with certainty? I might end up at the bad end of a crime investigation if 'someone' wanted to do that. But I definitely didn't think about my kids' safety being a problem. I hope these folks start going down and soon.
To my horror...(((Soros))) is a distant relative (if the path was right and I'm 99% sure) Oddly the Trumps are closer cousins on my moms side. I legit was horrified to see I had any path leading to sore eyes. I only looked it up because I discovered my grandma was baptized in a Hungarian church. Let's just say for me and my kids, I'm glad my paranoia took ahold of me and shook me before I did something silly and let someone who seemed too eager to get my DNA. I hope nobody uses these..it can shorten your research, the tests, but it seems that the easy way isn't always best...or even accurate.