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Most companies don't cooperate with law enforcement, it's only Gedmatch who do currently and you need to personally opt in to that because they originally gave free access and there was a legal challenge. None will give info to health insurance companies, privacy laws in most places wouldn't allow that. All of them have to let you delete your info whenever you want.
However if you don't trust for profit orgs then you're out of luck. Many of them are run by the LDS though, and their goal is to get your family tree so that they can baptise your dead relatives, so like, kinda harmless as far as corporate strategy goes.
I've had mine done and nobody has made an evil clone to frame me for killing the king yet, so it's not too bad.
Do you have a source on that LDS thing? Iβd like to read about it
Hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims were posthumously "converted" to the LDS cult.
hm. that doesn't say anything about the mormans owning genealogy dbs though.
The Mormons created the databases. They literally went to Europe and volunteered to manually enter handwritten records that survived World War ii. Source, I used to work for ancestry.
That has nothing to do with dna databases. I understand mormans did a ton of ancestry research, but none of those sources say anything about using DNA genome sequencing to accomplish what youβre talking about.
I wasn't talking about dna. I was talking about genealogical databases. After the DNA hit is made, they use a genealogy database to find relatives. Also... Who do you think owns Ancestry DNA?? Look up My Family Inc. They're Mormons.
The entire point of the post was about DNA sequencing. If youβre going to change the subject say so.