I like history to smell like history too--great phrase! Unfortunately too much history didn't get recorded--or if it did the courthouse burned down. Sigh. So DNA has become my last resort in too many lines. Of course, as a female I can't play the Y game, but I twist arms and exhort--and sometimes even pay money. 

But you're right--some interesting anomalies have arisen through the DNA tests!  And those anomalies just create more puzzles.  I think I've already written on this board that Mason family DNA gave me FOUR brick walls instead of the one I started with. Still haven't made a dent in a single one-but somewhere back there in the haze of Colonial Virginia is a common ancestor...

And then there is the Lewis who is matching Phillips and the Mason who is matching Hudson and the Dunn and Brooks who are matching Moons... 

Yep. An interesting new tool. I keep pushing it--but so far not many breakthroughs! 

Karen
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sunshine49<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:51 AM
  Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Fading interest in Genealogy


  I suspect a lot of the more peculiar DNA results show a little  
  ancestral activity "on the wrong side of the sheets", too. Surprise!  
  Then what do you do, where do you go? For all intents and purposes  
  you are John Doe, yet your DNA says... you aren't.

  I know some people are suspicious of having their DNA tested because  
  they have a fear of the government or "somebody" doing something  
  nefarious with it, clone them or put it in a data bank or something.  
  Reminds me of the days when electricity was first being put into  
  homes, and some people stuffed straw in the outlets so it wouldn't  
  run out onto the floor.

  I agree with some here, I love nothing more than poking around the  
  original dusty, musty old books and records in court houses. I like  
  my history to smell like history...

  Nancy

  -------
  I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

  --Daniel Boone



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