marketing profile constructed about “you” from data used on whitepages.com etc?
Since the internet site know peoples’ families, addresses, phone numbers, and birth certificate data (just from public information), a corporation data punching it into the professional geneology sites doesn’t seem like such a stretch.
Well that’s certainly a good theory, but consider this. I was looking for biological family. Nothing in my on line foot print to even hint at who they are. Only clue is my entry in the CA birth index. My highest match when I got my results was a 1st cousin. User name is last name (his step fathers) and 1st initial. Nothing, no clue to contect us except DNA. It took some major sleuthing to even figure out who he was.