[Solved] Dangerous precedent?

I agree don't think I'd like that idea either.

Did I Get very far with the family tree?

I've thought about doing one but wouldn't know where to start.

Who knows what people could do with DNA when they get hold of it. Imagine if it got into the wrong hands! You could have people claiming all sorts of things!

i was quite lucky with the family tree - my ex's sister had done one on paper for her family, and a two cousins of mine had each done one separately for my father's family (which I can't find at the moment) and my mother's family - so all I had to do was enter the whole lot onto the software.

Imagine if MyHeritage was actually a front to a genetics testing laboratory...
Imagine if they were the first to master the cloning process...

Imagine what I could do with 5 of me!

One to drive the M25 in the vain hope of getting to one of my centres before 8am
One to spend time bonding with the young 'un
One to do all the house work that is now officially mine as Her Indoors is "the only one who can breast feed"
One to do all the DIY jobs that seem to be piling up whilst I'm negotiating with the washing machine to not shrink my pants again
And one to listen to the Mrs and nod sympathetically when she goes on about sore nipples, pelvic floor exercises and periods

In fact, forget that. I'd have nothing to moan about then

We did our family tree a while ago and we run out of leads unless we wanted to start paying for birth certficates etc.

Do not want my DNA on file as I dont trust these companies not to sell my email address - imagine who they would sell the DNA data to.

Would it mean that the Russian ladies would now want my children!!! or worse still I was one of their dads!!!

I would be very concerned about any private body having my DNA profile.
Why because its information that has a value to them and a cost to you.
Does anyone think they would only use it to trace potential family members (thats of course if other members have also taken up the offer)?
Much more likely is DNA profiling against known genetic problems that could effect you at a later point in life and the selling of that to bodies that insure against such things, and the fact suddenly you find private medical insurance and other insurances are refusing to insure for certain conditions (without ever telling you why or the fact it is based on your DNA profile sold to them by the aforementioned company for a profit).
Remember in this day and age information is worth lots of money dont give what is yours away for free, therefore if anyone considers such a move ensure you get an agreement in writing with any such company that the information belongs to you and you alone and you are specifically giving them permision to use your information for limited purposes and expressly exclude it from being sold lent or passed on to any other orginisations.
But i dont expect any of these companies would ever agree to you restricting their income streams.
Remember they do it for a profit first and for your benefit as a very lowly second.

Nicely put :cheer:

I had similar email from My Heritage website. Saw the dna offer and subscribed email to the bin. On agreement, would not want my dna floating about like my email after I sign up to these sites, who pass on your details to "carefully selected partners".

I have spent the past six months unsubscribing to every single email I get - I have now created a gmail account and this is the only one I give out when registerring for offers, shopping etc.

I only give my main email address out when I know it wont go any further and fingers cross I dont get any spam into it.

I actually think the insurance websites are the worst - everytime I register a search i get stacks of junk, I deliberately put in the wrong name and guess what loads of junk sent to it.

Called them but they say it wasn't them!!!!