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DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data

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Re: DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data

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post #9

Saw this coming years ago. 23andme is next.

... and from what I can tell, most people just wanted to know their nationality.

yep. I found this by simply visiting my local municipalities and easily dug up 3 generations of ancestors and immigration records. It was fun, I learned far more, and cost me $0.

Re: DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data

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post #9

Saw this coming years ago. 23andme is next.

... and from what I can tell, most people just wanted to know their nationality.

With ancestry and similar sites you can probably learn your origin down to the street address of your great great great grandparents.

Re: DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... and from what I can tell, most people just wanted to know their nationality.

With ancestry and similar sites you can probably learn your origin down to the street address of your great great great grandparents.

My ex has a doctorate in genetics (specifically studying evolution through genetic data) and described such tests as "genetic astrology" because of limitations in the data.

Re: DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With ancestry and similar sites you can probably learn your origin down to the street address of your great great great grandparents.

My ex has a doctorate in genetics (specifically studying evolution through genetic data) and described such tests as "genetic astrology" because of limitations in the data.

No, identity by descent works extremely well.

Re: DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data

#17
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... and from what I can tell, most people just wanted to know their nationality.

With ancestry and similar sites you can probably learn your origin down to the street address of your great great great grandparents.

In some countries the archives can be browsed online so no need for such sites in this case.

But those services can still be useful to find an unknown branch of relatives when the ancestor who had emigrated in a different country didn't let any info regarding their previous life.

Re: DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... and from what I can tell, most people just wanted to know their nationality.

yep. I found this by simply visiting my local municipalities and easily dug up 3 generations of ancestors and immigration records. It was fun, I learned far more, and cost me $0.

I imagine the Germans didn't leave them in a mass grave and burn the entire village down in 1943. That's the reality for a whole bunch of people and the International Tracing Service only did so much.

Re: DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data

#19
post #7

Saw this coming years ago. 23andme is next.

tfw all your immediate relatives did the test even after you explicitly told them not to

That's why I swallow a pinch of cobalt-60 every day, to make sure my DNA is unrecognizable to adversaries.
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