I haven't had it done and probably won't. My grandma has traced our family back as far as she can--my dad's side back to the early 1600s out of Scotland, Ireland, and Netherland and my mom's side back to the early 1800s in South Carolina. She has spent the better part of 30 years going to libraries, court houses, and cemetaries to track down what you can do on the websites in a matter of mo ths or years. Its all very interesting stuff. I kind of agree with your first statement that it is some gimmick to get a file on everybody easily. But I also think that to believe the gov doesnt already have that is naive. I remember reading somewhere that during the early parts of the war in Iraq the us built just such a database on insurgents by establishing a trash pick up company there and collecting DNA from the house hold trash............They may have changed after they picked up my neighbors trash,that's what makes it to the road..most of it winds up in the yard....