[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] DNA Testing

[Carolyn Schott]

In another genealogy group I'm part of (Germans from Russia Heritage
Society) we did a series of articles about DNA genealogy in our quarterly
magazine back in January 2007. The article the Sorenson Foundation people
wrote for us wasn't all that exciting :-) but we had a couple that real
people wrote that I thought were pretty interesting. Sue Eipert talked about
the process she went through in deciding what DNA testing company to use and
about looking at the results. Tim Janzen gave some medical background on how
DNA works genealogically...and talked about a big project that the
Mennonites have to test DNA and use that to figure out family relationships.

The magazine is online, but is in our Members Only area. But if you're
interested in seeing those particular articles, contact me one-on-one and
I'll send you copies of those.

(And no, we didn't put any of these companies' logos on our website either!)
:-)

Carolyn Schott
cgschott at comcast.net
 
 

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>Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 09:15:20 +0200
>From: Jutta Dennerlein <Jutta.Dennerlein at t-online.de>
>Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] DNA testing
>To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
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>Just to add another thought to the DNA testing discussion:
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>Since 2006 I get regular requests from companies who sell DNA tests. 
>They want to have their link or their banner placed on the 
>UpstreamVistula website. They also would appreciate an article 
>about DNA-Genealogy on my website - of course with their link 
>on the same page.
>For this 'affiliate program' they offer cash for each customer 
>they get through these links.
>I think they contact each website which has keywords like 
>Genealogy or Ahnenforschung on it and it seems to be worth the 
>effort, since there is obviously a lot of money and a growing 
>market connected with this.
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>Of course you will never find a link like this on 
>www.UpstreamVistula.org .
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>My personal opinion to this issue is, that nobody 'owns' his 
>DNA information. It is something we get from our ancestors and 
>we pass on to our descendants. Everything we do with this 
>information might affect our descendants.
>Publishing 'your' DNA information might prevent one of your 
>great-grandchildren to get a specific job because of some 
>weaknesses in the family DNA. Insurance companies will 
>calculate risks to their advantage using the family DNA 
>information. They might even refuse to pay if they find out, 
>that you did not inform them about some additional risks which 
>you knew of, since you had your DNA tested.
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>Kind regards
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>Jutta Dennerlein
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>www.upstreamvistula.org
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