Where can I find the y-dna-projects archieves? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diana Gale Matthiesen" <DianaGM@dgmweb.net> To: <y-dna-projects@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [Y-DNA-projects] Roll Call > Hello Barry, > > I have found a number of reasons people, even genealogists, don't get > tested: > > 1. The cost. The cost has been going down, which is helpful, but it's > still > expensive. I have noticed a *huge* drop in new members since the 2008 > financial > crash in the U.S. Hopeful, as we climb out of this recession, we'll find > more > people testing again. With the cost obstacle removed, as when someone is > offered a free test, we have to look for other reasons. > > 2. Fear that the test results can somehow be used against them. If > someone is > a criminal, they might very well need to be afraid of being identified, > however, > the markers used in Y-DNA STR testing for genealogical purposes are not > the > CODIS markers used by law enforcement. However, these people are going to > be > keeping a low profile in any case. But neither is there any medical > information > in them, and there is a law to prevent such misuse: > http://www.genome.gov/24519851 > > 3. A strong sense of privacy. You are going to find it hard to get past > the > fact that some people have a very strong sense of privacy. Exactly how > you > handle this depends in part on where someone is being tested. At > Ancestry, if > you upload your results and belong to a group, everyone in the group will > know > who you are and see your test results, but the group, test results, and > member > identities are not accessible to the general public. In contrast, most > FTDNA > projects make their results public, but keep the member identities > private, > based on this policy: > http://www.familytreedna.com/privacy-policy.aspx > > I try to relieve people's anxieties by fully disclosing my mtDNA results > and > reminding them they should be much more concerned about people finding out > their > social security number than their DNA test results! > http://dgmweb.net/DNA/mtDNA-T-haplotree-DGM.shtml > > 4. Uncovering an NPE. Nobody expects and NPE, and I agree they are > devastating > when they occur. Just as we are told not to do our genealogy, unless we > can > deal with finding out something we'd rather not have known, no one should > be DNA > tested, unless they can handle an unexpected result. And here we find one > reason royalty aren't rushing out to be DNA tested for the benefit of > genealogists who want to prove a connection to them: they have everything > to > lose and little to gain by being tested. All I can do for my members in > this > regard is let them know that, in case of an NPE, I will do everything in > my > power to help them connect to their "real" family. > > There are other reasons I'm sure why people don't get tested. All I can > suggest > is that we recognize these issues and do what we can to relieve people's > anxieties about them. I've been delighted by the two recent TV series > involving > genealogy and genetic testing. Hopefully, such programs will help people > to see > that DNA testing for genealogical purposes is nothing to be afraid of. > And > wouldn't we just love it if it became a fad! > > Diana > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: y-dna-projects-bounces@rootsweb.com On Behalf Of Barry >> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 9:19 PM >> To: y-dna-projects@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [Y-DNA-projects] Roll Call >> > <snip> >> >> Five of the tested members and I came together through >> Claypoole Connection >> on Facebook, but announcements and attempted recruitment via >> the various >> Claypoole/Claypool genealogical message boards and mailing >> lists have been a >> great disappointment, not yielding any project members to date. >> >> Additionally, a number of people with an established background in >> traditional genealogy, and with published genealogies, have >> not taken the >> opportunity to be tested, even when offered a test at no cost >> to themselves. >> >> All advice welcome! >> >> Barry >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > Y-DNA-PROJECTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >