(Sorry Phylis. Realized I sent this to your address instead of the board.) Phyllis. I have to say, at this point, I don't care for this idea. I'm very suspicious of a program that tells me that this will help me in locating family BUT that this information will not be given to me. I don't see that, for the present, it will help us find help with our ancestors since they would have to be dug up to compare the DNA and if I know where they are to begin with, that is useless. For the future, it appears to me that there are so many records kept on people now that there will be no hiding place for anyone. I can see it being a benefit to the service for identifying our MIA's or even to the law to confirm that a body might be a peticular person. For those who wish to do this, I have no problem with them doing it. I just think potential is there to be misused, too easily. Thanks for opening it up for discussion. annie

There are probably some specific questions that DNA testing could answer - like the Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings thing. In my wife's genealogy, there are Wetmores and Whitmores who lived in the same are in the early 1600s and the descendants are talking about a few of them getting tested just to answer the age old question of whether they are tryly related. But the idea that a general collection of DNA data will help with genealogy is highly questionable and if someone was attempting to sell the idea of contributing DNA on that basis, it would make me very suspect about their motives.