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Truth be known, for the people who have used these sites in the true fashion for which they were intended have lost a benefit in pursuing their genealogical history. Unfortunately it is likely necessary to protect the common good and the rights of an individual's privacy. Just my two cents on the matter.
Those sites had not been updated in years. Extremely slow and not user-friendly. Fortunately the thousands of surname and other projects at FTDNA are still mostly public, so it's not a great loss.
Truth be known, for the people who have used these sites in the true fashion for which they were intended have lost a benefit in pursuing their genealogical history.
I spent probably upward of 100 hours on those sites, and am not any closer to solving several mysteries than when I started.
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Originally Posted by aries63
Those sites had not been updated in years. Extremely slow and not user-friendly.
They were free. Perhaps you should have volunteered your time to re-write the code to make them faster.
... Fortunately the thousands of surname and other projects at FTDNA are still mostly public, so it's not a great loss.
I just noticed that WorldFamilies.net is deleting their surname projects section. I never really understood how this site interacted with the project data pages on FTDNA. I guess the impact is minimal?
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