My brother just did this! Independently of him, I was looking into signing up on Ancestry, so that was funny timing. (Or WAS it
... *cue suspenseful music*).
Not being on Ancestry yet, I can only guess...perhaps they keep their trees private simply to reduce the number of total strangers who might otherwise contact them. If you have a family link, you would not be a total stranger. So I think they would
not think you were rude for contacting them. They can always choose not to respond.
I once tracked down a family ~ complete strangers ~ because my sister found their great grandfather's keys in an old house that she purchased.
They were shocked to hear from me but pretty happy to get those keys back.
Maybe. I have no idea if my brother has created a tree yet or not (I literally just discovered yesterday that he had the DNA test done.). Out of all of us, I would be the most likely to get that going. I could see him just wanting an ethnicity breakdown.
Maybe that's why he sent me his DNA results...giving me a little nudge.
Okay, now I have a question...given the nature of this DNA test, I don't really need to have it done, do I? He and I have the same parents, grandparents, etc. Wouldn't my numbers come up the same?