tl;dr: Folks want to use ancestry to see where and how it goes. What do they need to know? Is there anything to avoid?
I’m not wild on the idea of submitting DNA swabs for a lot of reasons, the recent issues with genealogy.com’s data being a great example. What of tracing family tree by liniage?
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The free trial STATTS with ‘sign in using the following services’ I haven’t gone past that point because I don’t want to hand anything over til they show me where they want payment information, because free trials are seldom free and.
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The payment page for full signups constnatly ‘reassure’ that you don’t have to do anything each month it auto renews. my family’s gotten burned on auto renewals before where the other end basically refused to stop taking money out in spite of trying to end services.
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Anyone know about the library edition how to find out what libraries have access to that and what’s needed to sign in that way?
It’s owned by the Mormon church, and that alone should steer you away from it. You don’t want the Mo’s to have your DNA.
Just a quick recap of how shitty they are:
Holocaust victims and Queen Mother posthumously baptized by Mormons
The LDS Church Released “Egregious and Onerous” New Policies Restricting Trans Mormons
Mormon church fined for scheme to hide $32 billion investment portfolio
Topeka LDS missionaries mock Chinese people on camera
Study: Utah women in tech report religious sexism
Thanks for this. As an exmo, this sort of post legitimately warms my heart. Spread their culty dirty laundry far and wide.
I’m so sorry it had to be part of your life experience, but good on you for getting out of there!