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[CelticBanshee3]

Ive been thinking of doing some research into my ancestral tree.  Which is your fav site to get started?   My daughter took a blood sample from ancestry.com and it didnt seem right, as it didnt line up with family lore on either side!

That's because those places most likely don't have as much to do with genealogy as they do with collecting and cataloguing people's DNA.  Just read the disclaimers, they specifically exclude selling your DNA data from their privacy statements.  They throw in words like "for official purposes", "and/or related business ventures", "partners and related business entities" into their exclusions...which all translates into -->BIG BROTHER (at least IMHO).

Now, we could get all worked up about this (and some do), but the unfortunate reality is if you've ever been to the hospital or your doctor's office to have blood drawn, if you've carefully read the HIPPA and Privacy statements, they make the same exclusions.  So, in some respects it may be a moot point, but still it's just the principle with me; I'll be damned to "pay" for someone to spy on me, and you just know they're getting funding from the fed to share data!

Just a crazy 'CT' thought.  :-)

Yes, that has crossed our mind, too. I got my brother to submit a sample several years ago before Ancestry shared their data. He told me that the Air Force already had his DNA anyway. We have a lot of CT thoughts.