Even
when you know the news will come some day, it’s still a bit gut-wrenching when
it comes!
This time I am not talking about the
death of a long-sick or aged loved one, I am talking about the Ancestry DNA
database.
In spite of petitions and letters and pleas, from their customers, from the genealogy community and from the leaders in genetic genealogy, Ancestry did exactly what they said they would do – they deleted the Y and mtDNA data bases and in effect, destroyed the contents – tens of thousands of irreplaceable records, gone, forever.
In other words, they burned the
courthouse of the County
DNA
Read the full details in Roberta’s
post on DNAExplain, Ancestry Destroys Irreplaceable DNA
Database.
Not much more to be said ....
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