MyTrueAncestry - Yea Or Nay?

[Webmaster]

Here is an interesting post about MyTrueAncestry. The post seems to be reasonable in its analysis, and I would agree - for now MyTrueAncestry seems to be more gimmick than useful.

Also, with my background in website design, I tend to get suspicious when a website will not allow you to view it without enabling Javascript. Most reputable websites allow you to see a basic version of the website without requiring Javascript to be enabled. Interactive functionality won't work, but the basic text is available. MyTrueAncestry will not show anything of their website without Javascript being enabled. This is suspicious because while Javascript can provide extremely useful functionality to a website, it can also be used maliciously to mine your personal info. Couple that with the fact no info is provided about the founder or the website team, it becomes a dubious website, IMO.

And while some may say that is the pot calling the kettle black, anyone who has chosen to interact with me via PMs on this forum is aware of who I am. But MyTrueAncestry apparently never reveals any background info ever.

[ChrisMcLain132906]

I definitely agree David. I checked it out and submitted my raw data from ancestry a few months ago just to see how their analysis/ethnicity results played out and if there was anything different, and it just seemed to be very broad thousands+-year-old haplotypes on par with what FTDNA was revealing a decade ago with simpler tests. And then I got bombarded with emails about *unlocking* more results with different levels of fees and monthly membership costs
The annoyance of it wasn't even worth the free analysis, and I didn't even take into account the javascript issue you brought up.