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customerserviceguy

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9. This is a different sort of thing

Reply to FreeState (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 11:21 AM

Feb 2019

If I have your parents' fingerprints, that's not going to lead me straight to you. With DNA, that's a whole different ballgame. The writers of the Fourth Amendment could not possibly have seen this coming.

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A letter from Bennett Greenspan, FamilyTreeDNA Founder [View all] csziggy Feb 2019 OP

DNA testing is not genealogy. defacto7 Feb 2019 #1

Yes, but their business model is FreeState Feb 2019 #3

Well, I know they do but DNA doesn't work the way they advertise. defacto7 Feb 2019 #5

Actually customerserviceguy Feb 2019 #8

People are too ignorant of how genealogy works, much less DNA csziggy Feb 2019 #12

They don't built family trees customerserviceguy Feb 2019 #7

It's not genealogy in the classical sense of the word customerserviceguy Feb 2019 #6

Understood. defacto7 Feb 2019 #11

The bottom line is customerserviceguy Feb 2019 #13

I received the same and it doesn't bother me to honest FreeState Feb 2019 #2

I agree with you csziggy Feb 2019 #4

This is a different sort of thing customerserviceguy Feb 2019 #9

I got customerserviceguy Feb 2019 #10