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Dem2theMax

(10,233 posts)
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 04:01 PM Aug 2020

Trump donor buys large stake in Ancestry.com

https://gizmodo.com/worlds-biggest-landlord-buys-worlds-biggest-genealogy-w-1844630685

The Blackstone Group will buy a majority stake in the genealogy website Ancestry.com in a deal worth $4.7 billion, according to a press release published Wednesday. Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, is the world’s largest landlord and Ancestry is the world’s largest genealogy website, with over 6 billion records on family history in the U.S. alone. Ancestry also provides DNA testing and has over 18 million DNA test results in its databases.

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The CEO and co-founder of Blackstone, billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman, contributes significant sums of money to the Republican Party and has close ties to the Trump regime, serving on President Trump’s business advisory council in 2017. Schwarzman previously called proposed tax hikes on businesses during the Barack Obama administration, “like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939,” something that he later apologized for.

Much more at the link above. I don't think this guy is going to use Ancestry.com for the reasons we use it.
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Trump donor buys large stake in Ancestry.com (Original Post) Dem2theMax Aug 2020 OP
A bit horrifying. liberalmuse Aug 2020 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Aug 2020 #2
Ancestry is having a sale on their 'Ancestry Health' product. Dem2theMax Aug 2020 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Aug 2020 #4
I know! Dem2theMax Aug 2020 #5
Oddly I just did this last night! CountAllVotes Aug 2020 #8
Blackstone Russian Oligach's. Wellstone ruled Aug 2020 #6
Time to cancel my Ancestry subscription. OnDoutside Aug 2020 #7
I just saw his name on the post listing the billionaires who fund the RNC legal fund that supports Karadeniz Aug 2020 #9
It's absolutely unbelievable. Dem2theMax Aug 2020 #10
You took the words right out of my mouth. Dark n Stormy Knight Aug 2020 #12
He will only use it for Good.. LessAspin Aug 2020 #11
Now that they have DNA tests that produce revenue, private equity got interested bucolic_frolic Sep 2020 #13
Fuck. live love laugh May 2021 #14

Response to Dem2theMax (Original post)

Dem2theMax

(10,233 posts)
3. Ancestry is having a sale on their 'Ancestry Health' product.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 04:13 PM
Aug 2020

I've already done my DNA on their website. Was just getting ready to do the health portion when I saw the article about the sale. I don't have an active account right now. And I will never have one again after this. I'm going to download all of my information to my computer and delete my records from Ancestry.

I guess that's the end of my genealogy research.

Response to Dem2theMax (Reply #3)

Dem2theMax

(10,233 posts)
5. I know!
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 04:27 PM
Aug 2020

I just read up on how to delete everything. You can take absolutely everything off the site, all of your trees and your DNA results. I have a lot of work ahead of me. Lots to copy over onto the computer. Then bye-bye Ancestry. What a shame!

CountAllVotes

(21,032 posts)
8. Oddly I just did this last night!
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 04:34 PM
Aug 2020

I don't know why I did it but I did!

DNA = gone
Tree = gone



How's that for some psychic energy coming my way?

I am stunned I tell you! STUNNED!!!



Karadeniz

(23,329 posts)
9. I just saw his name on the post listing the billionaires who fund the RNC legal fund that supports
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 07:52 PM
Aug 2020

Going to court to further voter suppression.

Dem2theMax

(10,233 posts)
10. It's absolutely unbelievable.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:32 PM
Aug 2020

Everywhere we turn, there's an infestation of these people trying to destroy everything we're trying to save.

I swear, my blood pressure has been up for hours, ever since I read about this earlier today.

bucolic_frolic

(46,561 posts)
13. Now that they have DNA tests that produce revenue, private equity got interested
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 08:06 AM
Sep 2020

I doubt the DNA tests. I've traced all my ancestry to 1850, and some to 1560, 1200, and 700.

Until they can prove, in a double blind test, that DNA produces results entirely consistent with verifiably traced ancestry using actual contemporary paper records going back centuries, DNA testing is just SNAKE OIL to me.

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