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Disclaimer FamilySearch is one of my primary clients. There is absolutely no money flowing from ancestry to FamilySearch in any way. There is an agreement that
by gustavus 3y ago
Disclaimer FamilySearch is one of my primary clients.
There is absolutely no money flowing from ancestry to FamilySearch in any way. There is an agreement that members of the Church and FamilySearch centers get free access to ancestry in return Ancestry gets access to data collected by FamilySearch.
There is however no kickbacks of any sort.
Edit: Also FamilySearch doesn't store any DNA samples of any kind.
- defrost 3y agoDisclaimer, I'm well on the other side of the planet from Utah and have no particular bias about the LDS. I wouldn't have expected money to flow directly from the private company to the free company, I do expect money to flow from the private company to the LDS coffers simply as a matter of founders and shareholders tithing back to their church. If that's true Then (If the LDS supports FamilySearch in any financial way Then it's also true that money does flow from the private company to support the free company) I'm not suggesting kickbacks or anything other than simply observing the manner in which money flows, much as a hydrologist describes how water flows. The case in my experience with relatives and Ancestry.com is them being encouraged to pay to send samples in or genetics testing - those samples are likely processed by a third party company that may or may not be connected, may or may not keep the original samples, full scans, partial result markers, etc. I find it very unlikely in the present Information Age that such data would be fully discarded regardless of any public disclaimers. This, of course, does not suggest that FamilySearch is storing DNA samples - but it does mean that I fully suspect someone of holding onto that information.