I am hearing that FTDNA utilizes micro array technology for their SNP packs instead of Sanger sequencing. This might explain some strange results. Mike and Thomas, do you know if this is true? Atanas Kumbarov On 2015-10-09 16:05, Mike W via wrote: > I am independent, Thomas. I don't know anything about what FTDNA is doing > with the DNA samples. I know they used to send them to Arizona for some > testing. I generally don't comment on rumors but I will ask FTDNA about > this. > > I have privacy concerns like many other people. Is that the relevance of > your question? I am not afraid to send my DNA sample to Germany which is > where I think you are, although I probably should do better research on > this. I was not afraid to send my DNA sample to the UK and did so. > > However, I am reticent to send my DNA sample to countries that don't > respect individual rights and privacy. In that regards I feel pretty good > about the European Union, maybe even more so than the USA. There are > countries that do NOT abide by western international trade practices and do > NOT respect individual rights. Once you send something to one of those > countries you have no recourse. Fortunately, FTDNA is big enough and an > on-going concern and has terms of service documented. I could sue them in > court successfully if needed. I don't expect to need that, but that > capability here in the USA is a good inhibitor to privacy-related > malpractice or negligence on FTDNA's part. > > Thomas, if your products are good, and I think they are, why do focus on > negative campaigning? "Propaganda" is the term you brought into this > conversation. Maybe if you have points to make they are okay, but if > someone else has points it is propaganda. Beauty and fairness are in the > eye of the beholder. > > I'm not easily bullied, because I really am independent. I say what I want, > but I always ask myself what is helpful for the individual testers. Debate > is good for understanding and therefore helpful, but that does not make one > side good and one side bad, nor any one opinion or interpretation > infallible. It's all okay. Besides, it's just a hobby. > > BTW, just to re-iterate: I don't receive any compensation or free testing* > for anything related to genetic genealogy and I have no plans to. I don't > plan to enter this business. I don't need to. I have never met an FTDNA > employee or family member or business partner of FTDNA. I've never been to > FTDNA's location or to an FTDNA conference, although I've been to Houston. > > * I received a free test from BritainsDNA once and I regretted accepting it > so when I was offered an FGC test paid for I turned it down. > > Mike W > > > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 3:45 AM, Thomas Krahn via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com >> wrote: >> Mike, >> >> If you're really independent, then why don't you comment on FTDNA >> sending the samples out of the country to a third party laboratory? >> >> Thomas >> >> On 10/9/2015 5:33 AM, Mike W via wrote: >>> I receive no compensation or free tests. I'm not a vendor and have never >>> met anyone face to face that I know of who is a vendor in this hobby. >>> >>> Mike W >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message