Copied from https://www.geni.com/discussions/273633?msg=1682349
https://www.geni.com/discussions/273633?msg=1682349 Writes:
A GENI member has published his personal take on his DNA matches within the "About" section of an ancestor profile. He asserts that "DNA ties a descendant" of his ancestral Scots-Irish ancestor to my theoretical Scots-Irish 6th great-grandfather (who has not been identified in any historical records and is beyond a brick wall) due to two triangulating groups of matches to him. This member has now added various speculative details presuming that my ancestor "must" have been born in the same area as his ancestor. Further, this member has added an invented sibling in his ancestral family to serve as a mother for my theoretical 6th great-grandfather in order to fit his hypothesis. See the profile John ‘of Brookeborough‘ Armstrong where the privacy issues occur in the profile of his daughter "Unknown McClure"
I communicated with this person, explaining that there is a wide range of possible relationships for 15cM-25cM triangulating matches and that considerable evidence is required to document an 8th cousin inheritance path following each ancestral line. I do not find his conclusion viable as presented. Thus far he has been undeterred.
What is alarming is that this publicly visible "analysis" names his DNA matches and hyperlinks their full names to their otherwise private GENI profiles. Three of these matches are close relatives to me and I manage their test results. I have removed the hyperlinks for them, replacing their names with initials. This GENI member has not discussed his interpretation with my relatives or with me (until now) and has not been granted permission to publish their names. Hyperlinking the full names to the profiles of living persons is a direct (double?) privacy violation in my view.
