Screw You Ancestry.com

[digs]

@pohjonen

I wanted future descendants to be able to see what great great great grandma and grandpa looked like. I’m sure my mom’s old photos will end up being trashed one way or another some day so I put them up online to avoid that depressing outcome. Not to have access to them sold back to me.

Well, I hope you’ve thought of just putting them on a hard drive for your descendants, and maybe on Dropbox or your own website and/or some other cloud solution.

[mistymage]

@John_Mace

Do NA tribes generally accept DNA data when determining who gets to be an official member? I seem to recall that some tribes don’t, but maybe that’s different for the particular tribe you are thinking of.

My band doesn’t: it’s all about who your family is.

3 things:

1. No one has ever said, hey, we’re part Black… ever. Which could mean he was adopted into the band and they considered him a fullblood member. Just “is”. That line is… prolific.

and

2. In the 1970s we (my band) started up a casino and from then on they have gotten particular who was or wasn’t a member. I almost didn’t make the cut even though my older siblings did… simply because they changed the blood quantum amount after I was born but before I was registered (I registered myself at the age of 18). They “grandfathered” me in.

3. Our tribe (the MCT… Minnesota Chippewa Tribe) wants all amounts of Native blood counted vs individual Bands wanting just Band blood recognized. My GGmother had blood from 2 different bands… but only 1 counts down lineage (you choose… ). The MCT wants to change that… so both bloodlines are recognized and ups folks quantum even if you only get money/recognition from one line.

[Chefguy]

@Nawth_Chucka

Ancestry also owns the Social Security Death Index rights, so they’re profiting from information about the American public by controlling access to that same public. Even when you use the free SSDI site you have to provide your first name and email to get a result and naturally one can expect that information to be sold. Our taxes pay to collect and keep the information safe and searchable, then we pay to access it as well.

Well, they may own ONE version of it. I tried to search for my bio father on an online SSDI and couldn’t find him, even though my brother swore that he sent the information in. So I contacted the SSA directly, asking them why I couldn’t find my father on the SSDI. They said that any published SSDI is incomplete, and that the only way to accurately search was through the SSA.

[Gatopescado]

@aldiboronti

You don’t need a time machine to be your own grandpa.

That’s some funny shit, right there! A little slice of Appalachia.

@silenus

That’s an episode of Futurama.

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

[scr4]

@Nawth_Chucka

AIUI, the OP is pissed to have their own content marketed back at them by this 3rd party to whom they did not sell nor give the content directly.

Yeah, but they bought out a company that the OP gave the photo to. Seems legitimate to me.