Cheri,
The website is registered as follows: Registrant Name: CURTIS ROGERS Registrant Organization: Registrant Street: 710 FIRST AVENUE SOUTH Registrant City: LAKE WORTH Registrant State/Province: FLORIDA Registrant Postal Code: 33460 Registrant Country: UNITED STATES Registrant Phone: +1.5618098551 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: +1.5615856724 Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: @GMAIL.COM I don’t know if this is actually who runs it, just that this is the person shown as the Registrant and Administrator for the website. He also has the rogersdna.com site. That site has a statement that data remains the property of the submitter, but it’s not GedMatch. Here is a link to a blog entry that has a little more info about the site from 2012: http://dna-explained.com/2012/12/28/2012-top-10-genetic-genealogy-happenings/ A few more Google searches will probably reveal even more about them. Diane George From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cheri Mello Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 7:58 AM To: Azores Genealogy Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Family Finder DNA remote matches Just so people know.... Gedmatch has no Terms of Service. You are giving them your raw data. We, as genealogists, know what we are doing with it. We don't know what they are doing with it. The names of the people who have founded Gedmatch are not on the site. I believe they are genealogists, but I don't know for certain. I go to a lot of DNA speeches and conferences. I hear the geneticists (PhD geneticists, not genealogists into DNA) speak. The sad truth is that they are making nothing out of the 1, 3, and maybe 5 cMs. I can't remember the amount of SNPs on the current chip. Who knows what will happen as time evolves. Maybe these small amounts of cMs will be meaningful with a certain amount of SNPs. I'll let the PhD and academics to their work. And it may take time. Ten years ago they told us autosomal DNA was most likely unusable. And here we are today using it. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
