I appreciate your privacy concerns. You pretty much control how your results are used and shared. There are two labs that are available to do the testing and links to each privacy policy are listed below: 1. Family Tree https://www.familytreedna.com/privacy.html 2. DNA Heritage http://www.dnaheritage.com/privacy.asp 3. Maybe your issues have been addressed in previous traffic on this mailing list and the answer lies in those archives that you can access at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=NEWTON This will take you to the search engine where you need to enter *"dna"*, without the quotes in the "Body" line of the engine and perform the search to bring up the list of related messages. 4. If your questions aren't addressed in the above pages, I suggest you contact one/both of the individuals below and maybe they can address your specific concerns. Project Administrators Greg Bonner greggbonner@yahoo.com Phineas Newton PhinehasNewton@aol.com Hope this helps Darwin Newton