If I buy test kits at Ancestry and have them sent to my address, how do I protect my privacy?  How much control  will I have over the information my matches can see?   At FTDNA we can withhold our names, addresses, and ethnic information if we wish--none of which is needed to identify a relationship.  How much can we withhold at Ancestry?  The only information I share at FTDNA is a list of ancestral surnames and locations.  Lindsey

Kits plural? Each kit must have its own email and sign the consent agreement. There are ways to manage another person's kit (with their consent, of course). As for your own account, your matches will see your Ancestry log in ID by default, but you can change that to whatever you want (real name, initials, whatever). There are two choices for displaying ethnicity: all regions, or just the regions you share with a match. All communications go through the Ancestry messaging system. Your email is not displayed to anyone. Ann Turner On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 2:51 PM Lindsey Britton via GENEALOGY-DNA < genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > If I buy test kits at Ancestry and have them sent to my address, how do I > protect my privacy? How much control will I have over the information my > matches can see? At FTDNA we can withhold our names, addresses, and > ethnic information if we wish--none of which is needed to identify a > relationship. How much can we withhold at Ancestry? The only information > I share at FTDNA is a list of ancestral surnames and locations. Lindsey > > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe > https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com > 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 >