I know. Been at this since 1970 just not up all the way on dna. Oh by the way ask how many markers. Though I understand there's another option A Sent from my iPhone On Jun 6, 2014, at 6:22 PM, Virginia A <vdach@briarwyke.com> wrote: I was on the phone with Familytreedna this morning. They are continuing the dna collection. I used them to begin with. I think one of the reasons that Ancestry probably quit doing the dna is, that I know a number of people that were confused about who was doing what. Because Ancestry .com owns the Family Tree Maker program, it was easy to assume that FTdna was also a part of their domain, but it isn't. "A nation of Sheep will beget a government of Wolves.: Edward R. Murrow > On 6/6/2014 2:16 PM, Adiene Humble wrote: > Read last night that some test are stopped as of now. Don't remember but was only on ancestry site. Unfortunately not even sure I wasn't on a bogus site. Do I sound paranoid, I am. You do not understand what I went through and still do. Like logins and I'm really careful as I called and talked to ancestry. I had found I had two accounts I didn't make with no profile. > > Getting difficult telling the real thing from the fake > Adiene > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 6, 2014, at 9:28 AM, "Dan M" <mygen2@d-matney.com> wrote: > > Maybe to solve the personal opinions > people can read this web page ( then the 50 comments) on the bottom. > http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2014/06/04/ancestry-com-focuses-on-core-offerings/ > not to mention, the data we used to get free is now being ( sold) on > Ancestry on top of the subscription. When you want a vitals or a census - > they changed how that works too. > Just check this link and see the problem is deeper to the people than a > simple change. > They never considered the people who use those resources. > the Core? > dropping the mt and Y dna? > There are other places out there, just waiting to be popular - as Ancestry > falls into the abyss/ > Comments on this topic are genealogy related and are open the next week. > Dan > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joyce Gaston Reece" <bjreece@bellsouth.net> > To: <cherokeegene@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 5:55 AM > Subject: Re: [CherokeeGene] Changes at Ancestry.com > > >> I've known for quite awhile that these 'subsidiaries' were databases they >> purchased over the years BUT also included under the main umbrella of >> Ancestry.com There was no reason to sub to genealogy.com if you have a >> ancestry sub. There was no use to sub to any of them if you had a full >> membership at ancestry. In all actuality what they are doing is putting >> everything possible under one umbrella when it comes to those type things. >> All the 'My Family" databases were included in the public trees on >> ancestry >> and can be accessed from there. >> >> As for the DNA portion. I'd venture to guess that the autosomal testing >> they are doing won't last much longer either. It just doesn't even make >> sense to test with them when so many millions more are testing at >> familytreedna.com The bigger the database the more chance one has for >> matching numbers. >> >> I had autosomal done at ftdna...it took awhile but was able to confirm two >> lineages that I had evidentiary data on previously. When one has over >> 1000 >> cousins listed to one degree or another it takes a whole lot of digging >> but >> can be done. >> >> They aren't removing anything....they're combining things under one >> umbrella. >> >> >> Joyce Gaston Reece > > =====*NOTICE THIS*===== > Cherokee genealogy; certain conversation is allowed to do genealogy; and sort fact from (fiction). > > Rude people will be moderated asap! > List archive > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokeegene > please take non genealogy to Cherokee@rootsweb.com > Dual admin. > Dan and Joyce > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHEROKEEGENE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > =====*NOTICE THIS*===== > Cherokee genealogy; certain conversation is allowed to do genealogy; and sort fact from (fiction). > > Rude people will be moderated asap! > List archive > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokeegene > please take non genealogy to Cherokee@rootsweb.com > Dual admin. > Dan and Joyce > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHEROKEEGENE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message =====*NOTICE THIS*===== Cherokee genealogy; certain conversation is allowed to do genealogy; and sort fact from (fiction). 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