AncestryDOTcom new twist.

Wolfy-hound · #1 10/13/13, 09:28 PM

I've seen a lot of commercials for Ancestry where you put in your grandma's name and info and it finds all these cool relatives you never knew about and such.

Now there's a new commercial that says you can submit DNA and it will match up to see where you're from and find other relatives via your DNA, like a lost branch of the family from when your great-great-great Uncle Georgie came from France...

But the website at the end that you go to ends in DOTgov. Why?

I thought that only government sites(federal, state?) ended in .gov so why would a business that tracks/finds relatives and such be using a site ending in .gov?

I'm not a conspiracy crackpot... but it makes me tilt my head and go "Whaaa?" Is there a reasonable explanation? Am I missing something about .gov sites?

**Roadking** · #2 10/13/13, 10:16 PM

About time folks started to see where this would lead.

Matt

kasilofhome · #3 10/13/13, 11:41 PM

What will you do with my DNA after it has been tested?Ancestry.com will provide complimentary storage of samples submitted for DNA testing; however, Ancestry.com will not offer a guaranteed banking service of your DNA at this time.

Wolfy-hound · #4 10/14/13, 08:44 AM

While I'd love to see which old families I'm related to over in Minorca... nope, nope nope and... let me think it over... NOPE!!!

And I'm really not that paranoid over the whole "the government is gonna get us!". But.. nope. Just feels so very wrong.

kasilofhome · #5 10/14/13, 08:59 AM

Just gota ask why the need to store ---and where --and who.

So, nice to know that newborns are having DNA samples done and stored---Yep---Homebirth are comming back.

7thswan · #6 10/14/13, 09:09 AM

I've heard this "garbage" too. I thought, Who in their right mind.....

mistletoad · #7 10/14/13, 10:17 AM

Where did you see this ad? I am an Ancestry affiliate and none of the ads I run take people to a .gov site AFAIK, so I would like to check and remove the ones that do.

Awnry Abe · #8 10/14/13, 09:30 PM

I suggest you become a conspiracy crackpot. It isn't as crazy as it sounds. Did they want you to pay to submit your DNA sample to their big data number cruncher so that you would think you are getting value from it, and not them?

Awnry Abe · #9 10/14/13, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by kasilofhome

What will you do with my DNA after it has been tested?Ancestry.com will provide complimentary storage of samples submitted for DNA testing; however, Ancestry.com will not offer a guaranteed banking service of your DNA at this time.

Oh how nice of them to store my DNA samples for me. I sure wouldn't know what to do if I lost mine. Maybe I can finally throw away this shabby mite and skin-cell infested pillow and get a new one.

Laura Zone 10 · #10 10/15/13, 06:49 AM

Now they are advertising to young people (18-35) "hey for 99.00 we can tell you if you are pre-dispositioned for this disease or that cancer".....and "we'll store your DNA for you"......

They are appealing to the masses via 'health concerns'.....

My tin foil hat fits just fine.
Yes, those are feathers. I am pretending that I am a Las Vegas Show Girl.

Wolfy-hound · #11 10/15/13, 08:31 AM

The ad I've seen is on TV, but next time I see it I will copy down the web address. They specify say the web address a few times and it's on the screen, ending in .gov.

*makes own tinfoil hat with horns cause horns is stylin.

arabian knight · #12 10/15/13, 09:16 AM

I sure can't see where the Mormon Church would have any connection to a .gov site or anything to do with the Government as far as that is concerned.

mistletoad · #13 10/15/13, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by arabian knight

I sure can't see where the Mormon Church would have any connection to a .gov site or anything to do with the Government as far as that is concerned.

Ancestry.com is not owned by the Mormon Church. It is a privately run, for profit organisation.

This is the only tv ad I can find specifically for the Ancestry DNA testing (which is very popular with the non-tinfoil hat crowd).

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/72_P/ancestry-com-dna

arabian knight · #14 10/15/13, 11:35 AM

They are still using the Computers and Data bases in Provo, UT.
OK I will give you that one, as at one time it was, and that was only a few years ago it went public.

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On 19 December 2006, the company changed its name to "The Generations Network."[26] While the company had been offering free access to Ancestry.com at LDS Family History Centers, that service was terminated on 17 March 2007 because of the inability to reach a mutually agreeable licensing agreement between TGN and the LDS Church. In 2010, Ancestry restored access to its site at Family History Centers.
On 6 July 2009, the company changed its name to "Ancestry.com".[27]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestry.com

mistletoad · #15 10/15/13, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by arabian knight

They are still using the Computers and Data bases in Provo, UT.
OK I will give you that one, as at one time it was, and that was only a few years ago it went public.

They didn't "go public" they are still privately owned. If you mean online public access to their collections, that started in 1998. It is not now and never has been a part of the church.

SeanInVa · #16 10/15/13, 01:04 PM

This is the website:
http://dna.ancestry.com/

not sure where the .gov is coming from.

I have done this through 23andme.com - it's actually quite helpful.

arabian knight · #17 10/15/13, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by mistletoad

1998. It is not now and never has been a part of the church.

There sure is a whole lot mentioned about the LDS church and its data bases and info that they have in their library, so ther sure must be some connection.

Ancestry.com headquarters in Provo, Utah
In 1990, Paul B. Allen[6] and Dan Taggart, two Brigham Young University graduates, founded Infobases and began offering Latter-day Saints (LDS) publications on floppy disks. Allen's brother Curt and his brother-in-law Brad Pelo had founded Folio Corporation, where Paul Allen had worked in 1988. Infobases chose to use the Folio infobase technology which Allen was familiar with as the basis for their products.
The first products were floppy disks and compact disks sold from the back seat of their car. In 1994 Infobases was named among Inc. magazine's 500 fastest-growing companies.[7] Their first offering on CD was the LDS Collectors Edition, released in April 1995, selling for $299.95,[8] which was offered in an on-line version in August 1995.[9]
Ancestry.com[edit]
On 1 January 1997, Infobases' parent company, Western Standard Publishing, purchased Ancestry, Inc.,[10] publisher of Ancestry magazine and genealogy books. Founded in 1983 by John Sittner as a genealogy newsletter, Ancestry magazine had been launched in January 1994. Western Standard Publishing's CEO was Joe Cannon, one of the principal owners of Geneva Steel.[11][/QUOTE]
And then it goes to what I had put in quotes before they are still using the computers.
Ya just two years ago it was bought out by a UK investment company. So it is no longer a US company now at all.