Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon hits home. 😉
@walterbays
One of the recent updates for my DNA results shows people related to in world. Most of these are 4-6th cousins and they are everywhere. One is in town and I'm not from this area. But they are based on a very small percentage of DNA.
@SydneyHarper @Agatha Surprised there is interest, I checked, and yes there is a #genealogy hash tag in common use on CoSo. I'll have to look into that some more.
But now I'll ask you both whether you've been following the DNA controversies around Ancestry.com? That they refuse to offer a chromosome browser. That they cut off all our low cm (most valuable) matches. That they recently put a lot of matches behind a paywall. Hate them, yet nobody else comes close to # of subscribers.
I don't use Ancestry for anything. I get the info I need from familysearch dot org. It's LDS, but it's free, & I don't give them my data.
As for DNA testing, I haven't done mine. My sister did it via 23&Me, as did my husband (that's a whole nuther mess as they've been compromised).
Ancestry has *always* been predatory. They contacted me about 13 yrs ago. They wanted to include some historical research I'd done on enslaved people. I gave it away for free, instead. 😏
@walterbays @Agatha
I haven't followed the controversies. I follow too many things already. I have noticed that almost everything of interest is behind a paywall though.