hobbit
I don't understand? My understanding with these sites is they had you fill out a questionnaire. Maybe, used public records to find relatives and the like. I was told that wasn't the way it worked.
At no point did I ever believe any of these sites were legit. After I was told the sites DO NOT require questionnaires, I went to research them and found them, as I had suspected, to be completely fraudulent. So, if you're asking if my views evolved I would have to say yes in the method but no to their legitimacy.
BTW, you shouldn't "piss away" any of your money. I do think it can be quite useful if you're looking for a child that was put up for adoption kind of the way you're using it. I have something like that in my family. Something like this could bring closure to a half century long mystery that likely will never be solved.
As far as tracing ancestry, which is what it purports to do, it doesn't, as laid out by those anthropologists I cited.
Yes, believing is "fun"...all of us believe a lot of things. Most of which aren't true...good and bad. Like, thoughts like I'm worthless. Not true, but easy to believe for many.