If you're a regular reader, you may recall I've mentioned I've been working on and off on the family genealogy. In my searching, I discovered that you can actually explore your ancestry dna! How crazy is this? Apparently you can do test on either maternal lineage or paternal lineage. If you're a woman you can only submit your DNA for the maternal lineage test, but if you want to do the paternal also, you can have a father or a brother submit their DNA for that test. Interesting, huh? From studying the swab of DNA you send in, they can supposedly determine the geographic origins of your ancestors and even their migration. You get a report and everything with lots of other info. It's pretty expensive, but maybe I'll ask for something like that as a gift sometime - I'm pretty fascinated by this.
Our family is mostly all from Europe / Eastern Europe, so I guess I'd be pretty shocked if the test results came back showed we initially came from somewhere else. I recently watched a set of six DVDs when I was deathly ill over Easter about the Celts, I think I like to believe that they were my ancestors.
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