genealogical

The product had the advantage that it was integrated in to their genealogical research platform (a subscription service).

This means checking genealogical and religious records back two generations.

After ~15 generations your genealogical ancestors aren't all that likely to have contributed much to your DNA.

If 23andMe marketed their service purely for, say, genealogical purposes, there wouldn't be an obvious problem.

The LDS Church takes a very dim view of publishing genealogical information about living people.

Well, he spends quite enough time talking about genealogical adaptation to environmental pressures.

Making this information public by default will be very beneficial for genealogical purposes.

I am not using all of its options but it's very useful for professional genealogical researchers.

Or perhaps that you can't tell anything useful from surnames without doing a full genealogical survey just to check that these 'winners' are actually related.

Your genealogical data if given to any family tree site.

At the bottom, it says You had a trillion genealogical ancestors 40 generations back, which far exceeds the total number of people who have ever existed, so most of your ancestors appear many many times in your genealogical tree.

A species prefers to produce more offspring and lose some, guaranteeing that at least some of that offspring is going to be passing genes down the genealogical tree.

Never mind that the number of "genealogical ancestors" rapidly becomes larger then the number of humans alive at the time, it's almost certain that your * 10 grandparents didn't travel much, so existed as part of a far smaller sheltered gene pool.