Another reason why I love genealogy...

[auld argonian]

I just caught up with that article that was in Newsweek an issue or two ago that talked about the unreal situations that genetic testing is causing. Stuff like finding out that you share absolutely no genetic material with your grandfather...finding out that even though your name is O'Connor you are most closely genetically linked to Mongolian yak herders...stuff like that. Louis Henry Gates, the eminent African American scholar, found out that he is, in fact, more than 50 percent Western European by genetic testing.

I've always looked at the world with the attitude that everybody is ultimately related to everyone else and this seems to bear it out.

Thus...a whole lot more people who may have previously thought that they had no basis for wearing the kilt now may, in fact, have more of a basis than they thought.

Time to step up production, you kiltmakers!

Best

AA

[GlassMan]

...finding out that even though your name is O'Connor you are most closely genetically linked to Mongolian yak herders...stuff like that.

Just as long as they don't try to tell you that you are most closely genetically linked to a Mongolian Yak!