On 12/06/2010 01:21 PM, Ralph Taylor wrote: > To me, Billie's complaint arises from not having had the information needed > to make an informed choice at the time. (It's not that SMGF is bad; it's > that the choice isn't meeting Billie's needs.) Hopefully, we can steer other > beginners in a direction that helps them achieve what they want. > <snip> As I wrote in another message, it wasn't so much a choice of who as a donation to the cause, as it were. DNA Genealogy was in it's bare infancy fifteen years ago. There was no promise that whatever results they found would ever be released to me. If I had the funds and wished to do it I would make a choice. Now there is much better information to base choices on. > > > PS to Billie -- HTML analogy: If you put many 3MB images on your web page, > the slow loading is a consequence of the image choices. > _ _... ..._ _ > T B V T > _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ > K A 5 (H?) L S U > If I did it differently it looks like __... ...__ You have to have the space in there for it to work, _ _... ..._ _ is 73. ..... is 5, .... is H. -- "A good moral character is the first essential in a man." George Washington _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._