DNA tracing back to the Old Country?
Feb. 10th, 2006 12:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneNational Geographic has launched something called the Genographic Project where you pay $100 for a testing kit, take a couple of swabs inside your cheek, and they will type it and tell you where your genetic ancestors came from.
It's an interesting story. A Catholic priest in New Mexico found out he's from African Jews, a black man who thought he was African turned out to be more Irish than anything else, etc. I'm tempted to do it, sounds kind of cool.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11080815/site/newsweek/
It's an interesting story. A Catholic priest in New Mexico found out he's from African Jews, a black man who thought he was African turned out to be more Irish than anything else, etc. I'm tempted to do it, sounds kind of cool.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11080815/site/newsweek/
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Date: 2006-02-10 11:46 pm (UTC)I've got branches of the family that have been in this country quite a while, include one who was a young boy who was found hiding in the woods after a massacre during the French-Indian War. Even so I'd be surprized if I had more than 1/16 of anything other than Germanic.