I’d like to but the privacy problems are holding me back
Eh it’s no big deal. I leave dna samples all over and I don’t get to learn neat stuff from those.
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.
Hard no. Huge privacy issues with all of those companies and questionable how useful/accurate the data you get back is anyway.
Seeing as how no company can be trusted, no.
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.
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.