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

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

--Daniel Boone



On Jul 16, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Bill Davidson wrote:

> I too wish that people would "give credit where credit is due,"   
> but the occasional lack of that courtesy does not stop me from  
> posting what I learn. I only want "the truth and nothing but the  
> truth," and when I find it, I believe that I really should share it  
> with others.....no matter what some of them might do with it.
>
> I think that the high rate at which genealogy-related information  
> was being added to the internet in the late-1990s and early/ 
> mid-2000s was bound to taper-off to some degree.  There are only so  
> many documents out there to be found, interpreted and discussed.   
> In addition, many folks have discovered just how hard (and  
> frustrating) this "hobby" can be, and their initial enthusiasm has  
> waned (too many "brick walls").  It is also hard, no doubt, for  
> people to concentrate on genealogy when their IRAs are "tanking,"  
> their homes are being foreclosed, they cannot afford gasoline to  
> get to work, etc.
>
> DNA testing has helped to renew the discussions to some degree, and  
> many "revelations" have come from that science.  I look at this  
> testing as just another very valuable tool to use (there is nothing  
> "magical" nor "mystical" about it), and I wonder if some of those  
> who take no stock in it are just afraid that their 20+ years of  
> research might be proven wrong.  I love dusty old libraries and  
> courthouses as much as the next person, but I cannot turn my back  
> on scientific proof, when/if it is made available.  I would  
> literally not take a million dollars for my own DNA test results,  
> nor for the DNA test results of my male maternal cousin (though his  
> surname is "Brown," he turned-out to be a "blood Smith".....this is  
> why, it seems, that our gg-grandfather was named Smith W. Brown).   
> Each of these DNA tests proved "connections" that documentation  
> alone simply NEVER could......period.
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