Again no one said each persons information was available but that the data base of results is public. How do you think any conclusion could be reached without some type of data base per individual's Haplotype. So what can you do with it. See Hammer, recent publication U. of AZ on distribution of people of various ethnic origins in the USA. It identifies your individual distribution collectively in a data base of the various people of different ethnic origins in the USA per location. Now think about this in other government data bases and what this tells you about the general population distribution in the USA. What can you do with it? Herb Hendricks Retired NASA Physicist Hendricks DNA Project Group Administrator Secretary Hendricks Family Association Herb_316@MSN.com<mailto:Herb_316@MSN.com> 1210 Long Meadow DR Lynchburg, VA 24502 434 832 7246 Major/Smith/Hendricks http://www.ftdna.com/public/hendricks/<http://www.ftdna.com/public/hendricks/> ----- Original Message ----- From: Katherine Hope Borges<mailto:kvjjmmborges@msn.com> To: SCLAUREN-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:SCLAUREN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 7:48 PM Subject: RE: [SCLAUREN] The Genographic DNA Project as Seen by the Initiators The following comment posted is erroneous, see Genographic Project link and info below: <snip> "In addition this Genographic Project DNA information is available publicly who know who else will use it 1) the FBI for their criminal data base, 2) the US Government, etc." https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/faqs_privacy.html#Q5<https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/faqs_privacy.html#Q5> 5. How do you protect public participants' privacy and confidentiality? Genographic Project public participant samples are assigned a randomly generated, non-sequential Genographic Project ID (GPID) number for processing and analysis. Public participants can access their results anonymously via the protected participant area of the Genographic web site using his or her GPID number. To help protect your privacy, the project does not associate any personally identifiable information about you with this randomly assigned password. Therefore, if you lose this password we cannot recover it for you or provide you with any other means of accessing the results of your participation. YOU MUST RETAIN THIS PASSWORD IN ORDER TO ACCESS YOUR GENETIC MIGRATORY PROFILE. 8. What steps does the Genographic Project take to keep my results confidential? The results of the Genographic Project can be accessed only by you or by someone else to whom you give your randomly-generated Genographic Project ID number. No one can link your name or other contact information to the sample that you provided to the Genographic Project unless they have your Genographic Project ID number. If you choose to request further genetic testing from Family Tree DNA for purposes other than the Genographic Project, you will use your Genographic Project ID number to permit Family Tree DNA to access the sample of cheek cells you provided. Family Tree DNA has committed to National Geographic that it will protect the confidentiality of your Genographic Project ID number and that it will safeguard and use the number only for purposes of the further testing that you have requested. However, National Geographic may disclose participant information when doing so is required by law. National Geographic will discard samples at the conclusion of the Genographic Project. ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx>