Bill,

DNA testing is just wonderful  Bill, but it is rather one-side don't you 
think??

fern
www.bufordfamilies.com

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From: "Bill Davidson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Fading interest in Genealogy


>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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