Thank you Chuck for giving us a heads up on this article. My family has chosen to test through Family Tree DNA and have been satisfied with results. They have been upfront and honest without enhancing their findings. We are sometimes frustrated but also excited when we have found close matches with both African and European beginnings. My MTDNA revealed that I was not exactly"white bread" ...and belonged to a smaller "Eve" group than most with roots in the Middle Eastern/Greece/Northern Spain and my YDNA was as traditionally thought, Northern European. My male African American match also found that he was predominately Northern European as was his mother and grandmother! The strangest part of the MTDNA was a group of people in Finland called "Skolt Sami" who all descend from the same "Eve" and who have only been in that area for the last thousand years. Newcomers in the world of DNA and migration of mankind. DNA testing has offered us some insight into our past but with no positive answers historically speaking. It is still up to those of us with matches to figure out "who" was the common ancestor in the mid to late 1700's in Virginia. Betty in Illinois To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html