Some months ago someone posted about genetic databases being harvested from Iceland, and suggested other places were being surveyed too. Here's a ref for disbelievers. And an unrelated ref on *using* the *state's* DB to bust people based on that DB alone. _Science_ v 291, 16 mar 2001, p 2075: Talana, Sardinia "Sardinia's Mysterious Male Methuselah's" Gist: The 1200 residents of this town have allowed 400 years of genetic tree-tracing and given genetic samples to a researcher. (Aside: There are more men > 100 in Sardinia than anywhere else, but the Sardinians are interested in curing the diseases Sardinians do get, rather than playing longetivity games.) ALSO of interest, from the same issue, p 1893: entitled "Court affirms DNA is all you need". Gist: in Calif, you can get a warrant out for the arrest of John Doe, possessor of a given sample of DNA. There is no statute of limitations as of 1 Jan [2001] in that state. One 'Paul Robinson' was the first to be arrested solely on the basis of a database match. Pass that bowl of hair this way, BF ....... "I don't think much of his operating system", he told Plotz, "but I would like his sperm." ---Paul Smith, proprietor of a high-IQ sperm bank in Nevada, on Bill Gates _Science_ v 291 9 Mar 01 p 1893