I’d like to but the privacy problems are holding me back
Yeah if there was a way for it to be private and anonymous with many layers of protections, I’d be interested. But. There isn’t.
Seeing as how no company can be trusted, no.
I wouldn’t trust them with my contact information, much less my genetic information.
If you want to be up for snitching on your old timey serial killing relatives, you do you but it’s not for me.
If I remember right didn’t the Golden state killer get caught by a distant relative taking a DNA test?
No the only way for the evidence to match up was the DNA so they asked a relative to take a DNA test to see if it was him for sure and that was what confirmed it.
they asked a relative to take a DNA test
Really? I thought that the relative had already taken a DNA test and published the results on GEDmatch.
Nah they actually asked one of them because they suspected it was him and she was in agreement.
Huh, interesting. There’s no mention of that in the Wikipedia summary. How closely related was this relative? Do you have a source I could take a look at?
It’s in the movie about the golden state killer.
Do you recall the title of the movie?
Wikipedia says that they obtained samples from his car door and trash can.
Eh it’s no big deal. I leave dna samples all over and I don’t get to learn neat stuff from those.
Nope. I was quietly mad at my mother for taking part.
My company gave us 23AndMe kits for free back in the day. Everyone read excited. I was like, “nope.” And gave it to someone else.
Well, it works fine to find relatives. But it’s sad if you then find out those relatives have absolutely no idea of their heritage so you won’t find out how you’re connected.
But it’s nice to upload the data to Promethease and see what kind of diseases may await you in the future.
Hard no. Huge privacy issues with all of those companies and questionable how useful/accurate the data you get back is anyway.
I found it useful. It enabled me to break through a genealogy “brick wall” by connecting with a 3rd cousin who had more info on a pair of my (our) great-great-grandparents.
I’m not too concerned about privacy. I shed DNA all over the place just by existing, so I’m not really expecting that information to be private going forward.
There has been some controversy regarding the results of such tests. So, personally, I highly doubt the claims regarding what I can learn from a test, while I absolutely don’t trust the companies doing the test, so personally it’s an easy no.