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From: "John A Hansen" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] Promoting your project
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 09:40:11 -0800
In-Reply-To: <BFEHLBKCFNLPELAPJGLBEELNDMAA.sheryl@beatware.com>


Dear Sheryl:

Well there has been a flood of "mea culpa" on the list.
It looks like there may be enough of us guilty to set
a whole wing up in one of the new fed pens :-).

So I wanted to join this elite group and confess that
"me too" have published prices for the Scottish DNA
project. I thought it was a significant part of whether
some one would be interested. I have no financial interest
in any of the labs and have even encouraged other
DNA projects to publize their projects on the
SCOT-DNA mailing list and web site. The only interest
I had was to merely get lots of Scottish samples to
compare.

It still seems off hand to me that DNA studies of all
kinds are price sensitive. The cost of getting the results
is still somewhat high as compared to the perceived benefits.

I also believe that by publishing the various prices, that the
various labs have become much more competitive.... and
that's good. The recent trends and work to be able to
compare results across the various Labs is a real large
advance and that ability will certainly lead to more testing.

Anyway, where do we show up to plead guilty and take
our 20 lashes ?

Best Regards
John A Hansen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sheryl Alvernaz [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 8:51 AM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [DNA] Promoting your project
>
>
> Dear Group;
>
> It may well have been me that made the posting... In mine I posted a
> DNA study in 3 locations, and quoted prices on genforum, but did not
> quote the name of the company providing it. My instructions were that
> we were wanting to perform a study with the Lovett/Lovitt/Lovick
> surname, the pricing was _______ and for further information to contact
> me.... (brief version)...
>
> If it was I who stirred up the trouble - I'm sorry....
>
> Best wishes
> Sheryl Alvernaz
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 11:40 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [DNA] Promoting your project
>
> In a message dated 03/30/02 9:17:18 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> writes:
>
>
> > I may have been the one who posted a price.
>
> No, it wasn't you -- I just wanted to give project managers a "heads up"
> about how messages posted on Ancestry/RootsWeb might be interpreted,
> since
> I've seen negative reactions in several different cases. And to clarify
> a
> question from Allan, it's not Ancestry which is objecting, it is
> individual
> readers and/or list administrators who are the self-appointed monitors
> of
> what constitutes commercial activity. I've even seen people who question
> whether a genealogical society can include the cost in a conference
> announcement. I personally don't think such an indignant posture is
> warranted, and it's by no means universal, but you might avoid
> alienating
> some prospects if you omit the price and the name of the company you
> have
> chosen for your project. These details can be included on your personal
> web
> site.
>
> An announcement for a new WILSON project appeared so soon after my first
> post
> on this topic that it must be coincidental, but you can see how Steven
> Zuraff
> handled the issue of "advertising:"
>
> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WILSON/2002-03/1017507980
>
> Ann Turner
> GENEALOGY-DNA List Administrator
> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Miscellaneous/GENEALOGY-DNA.html
>
>
>
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