Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization
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Ancestry.com has announced that it plans in August to purge its smaller matches –6-8cM- segments. In other words, ancestry.com DNA customers are about to lose a substantial number of family members/DNA connections from its customer’s DNA matches.
In general, this is a terrible idea, but specifically, these smaller matches are the exact place where African American and mixed Native Americans find their ancestral connections. This change will also affect adoptee connections.
DNAeXplained –Genetic Geneology explains the problem with the purge, its ramifications and why it is important to convince Ancestry to stop their “improvements.” Please read Ancestry to Remove DNA Matches Soon – Preservation Strategies with Detailed Instructions and Plea to Ancestry – Rethink Match Purge Due to Deleterious Effect on African American Genealogists
Closer DNA matches reflect known and unknown family in the 3 or 4 generations since 1870, generally falling in the 2nd to 4th cousin range, depending on the ages of the people at the time of emancipation and also the distance between births in subsequent generations…
Of course, if you no longer have the matches to work with – these benefits won’t be available to you. This is exactly why it’s critical to identify the most crucial smaller matches and preserve them now. Once Ancestry has removed them, they are gone forever unless they transfer to one of the other vendors….
…if you are of European heritage and you think this topic doesn’t apply to you – if you have any unidentified ancestors – it does. Don’t discount and skip over. Please read. Our voices need to be heard in unison.
Bastard Nation urges you to read the two DNAeXplained articles linked above for a more detailed explanation on the planned purge; then contact Ancestry and ask it to drop the purge
Email at ancestrysupport@ancestry.com
Call Ancestry support, link here
Bastard Nation Letter
Bastard Nation has contacted Ancestry about the planned purge. You can read our letter here. Please use it as a model for what you can do…
…We are sure this purge is a business, not a discriminatory, decision. That the purge comes in the wake of Ancestry’s public support of Black Lives Matter is disturbing, however, reminiscent of documentary genocide, which we hope is unintended. It suggests, however, an attitude of “we know better than our customers what they want and need” by denying the above-named groups critical research tools…
New York Adoptee Rights Coalition
