Hi Fern and Wynette etc, I agree. Actually I hadn't seen Wynette's post. I have had trouble with my rootsweb post going straight into my junk folder lately. Wynettes and post was in there Gedmatch is a two man company, you will see that if you read what they have to say on the Gedmatch site. I have been happy with findings, but as well as real matches you will get non matches as Gedmatch themselves say that they send out in batches. Not sure what that means. Like most they do name matching then find dna matches to the names. Disguise your user name, I have just changed mine, i have a 50 year old photo up, because I thought a family resemblance would be more likely to be found. Since I was looking for a new family. Some use their eyes only in their profile. Not too much detail. Havent got photos of myself in the gallery or living family, just be sensible of what you put up Like others, good, if they find perpertrators of awful crimes. I read the criminals they are after using Gedmatch and the like, are rapists, murderers and the hard core type criminals. Gedmatch and the other dna sites very quickly sent out new privacy etc emails out to let folk know where they stand and that their dna from the sites can be used for other reasons. No need to panic. Like Wynette, I had my brothers ydna tested in 2008, I have two autosomal tests one with ftdna one in 2011 and recently a test with ancestry.com and no trouble whatever. Just ask your relatives you are going to test if they have done any good murders lately before you do a test on them Ha Ha. Seriously though, let folk you ask to test know the dna tests can be used for Criminal case solving. At least then they can make an informed decision as to whether they will or will not test. Personally I think on the whole I have been pleased with having tested. Broke down a brickwall, having never found anyone matched with our surname of Place, Found my real family very quickly, by real I mean the surname I should have had for my 74 years. Quickly found a 194 centimorgan match with another family in England, actually went up in status a few notches. My niece, my two great niece and nephew and daughter all matched with the Barton family, a Colonel too at the 2nd great grandfather level, I need a great grandfather level, so more work yet. Found others I never expected to find matches with. They were on my tree. One of those was a high match over 100 centimorgans as well. the matches can be quite a few generations back. So look, go for it. I have only put up family say from my great grandfather level and their family, on ancestry public trees. I Used the little trees put up by the different companies instead of using my familytreemaker, so you only put up birth and deaths no marriages. In order to get a dna match. I also ask, please do put up a little tree, so that when you do get your matches back you don't have to second guess who the match is or what family. So many dont put trees up. I created direct ancestral lines only as far back as I could go and it was surprising how far back I had my first match. I put that up for my matches to see where they match with me. 99% of the time, the donor of your dna match will not have a surname you recognise, but somewhere in their tree and yours you will have a common ancestor lerking. Since dna is usually off limits, I wonder if we could have a weekend special, when the list is dormant, so folk can talk about their Tasmanian matches. regards Edie McArthur ------ Original Message ------ From: "Fern" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, 13 Aug, 2018 At 12:01 PM Subject: [AUS-Tas] Re: DNA Wynnette's right - this has been reported on previously ... ever since 26 April and especially on US genetic genealogy blogs and other sites. And it does NOT mean that health insurers can prowl around on Gedmatch at random, checking on your dna. The US law enforcement uploaded a kit, compiled from dna at the crime scene, to find people who matched that sample. (Then there were several other stages, before they arrested the suspect.) I can't see how doing this would benefit health insurers.

------ Original Message ------ From: "Edie McArthur" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, 13 Aug, 2018 At 2:53 PM Subject: [AUS-Tas] Re: DNA Hi Fern and Wynette etc, I agree. Actually I hadn't seen Wynette's post. I have had trouble with my rootsweb post going straight into my junk folder lately. Wynettes and post was in there Gedmatch is a two man company, you will see that if you read what they have to say on the Gedmatch site. I have been happy with findings, but as well as real matches you will get non matches as Gedmatch themselves say that they send out in batches. Not sure what that means. Like most they do name matching then find dna matches to the names. Disguise your user name, I have just changed mine, i have a 50 year old photo up, because I thought a family resemblance would be more likely to be found. Since I was looking for a new family. Some use their eyes only in their profile. Not too much detail. Havent got photos of myself in the gallery or living family, just be sensible of what you put up Like others, good, if they find perpertrators of awful crimes. I read the criminals they are after using Gedmatch and the like, are rapists, murderers and the hard core type criminals. Gedmatch and the other dna sites very quickly sent out new privacy etc emails out to let folk know where they stand and that their dna from the sites can be used for other reasons. No need to panic. Like Wynette, I had my brothers ydna tested in 2008, I have two autosomal tests one with ftdna one in 2011 and recently a test with ancestry.com and no trouble whatever. Just ask your relatives you are going to test if they have done any good murders lately before you do a test on them Ha Ha. Seriously though, let folk you ask to test know the dna tests can be used for Criminal case solving. At least then they can make an informed decision as to whether they will or will not test. Personally I think on the whole I have been pleased with having tested. Broke down a brickwall, having never found anyone matched with our surname of Place, Found my real family very quickly, by real I mean the surname I should have had for my 74 years. Quickly found a 194 centimorgan match with another family in England, actually went up in status a few notches. My niece, my two great niece and nephew and daughter all matched with the Barton family, a Colonel too at the 2nd great grandfather level, I need a great grandfather level, so more work yet. Found others I never expected to find matches with. They were on my tree. One of those was a high match over 100 centimorgans as well. the matches can be quite a few generations back. So look, go for it. I have only put up family say from my great grandfather level and their family, on ancestry public trees. I Used the little trees put up by the different companies instead of using my familytreemaker, so you only put up birth and deaths no marriages. In order to get a dna match. I also ask, please do put up a little tree, so that when you do get your matches back you don't have to second guess who the match is or what family. So many dont put trees up. I created direct ancestral lines only as far back as I could go and it was surprising how far back I had my first match. I put that up for my matches to see where they match with me. 99% of the time, the donor of your dna match will not have a surname you recognise, but somewhere in their tree and yours you will have a common ancestor lerking. Since dna is usually off limits, I wonder if we could have a weekend special, when the list is dormant, so folk can talk about their Tasmanian matches. regards Edie McArthur ------ Original Message ------ From: "Fern" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, 13 Aug, 2018 At 12:01 PM Subject: [AUS-Tas] Re: DNA Wynnette's right - this has been reported on previously ... ever since 26 April and especially on US genetic genealogy blogs and other sites. And it does NOT mean that health insurers can prowl around on Gedmatch at random, checking on your dna. The US law enforcement uploaded a kit, compiled from dna at the crime scene, to find people who matched that sample. (Then there were several other stages, before they arrested the suspect.) I can't see how doing this would benefit health insurers. _______________________________________________ AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ Contact Admin [email protected] _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe and Archives https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/search/aus-tasmania Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community