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What's not so funny is that I read about some of this years ago and talked about it at length with many of the people around me, yet still forgot about how scummy data mining can be with this stuff.

Glad no one in my family believes in trying any of this stuff because of our weird records.

Ancestry.com takes DNA ownership rights from customers and their relatives

Don’t use the AncestryDNA testing service without actually reading the Ancestry.com

I will take every opportunity to warn people against these genetics testing “services.” They are huge data mines and prospecting firms, and if you are Indigenous, your submission may be their way around tribal moratoriums against these sorts of collections.

Plus, they don’t mean anything as far as Indigenous identity.