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From: "Rebekah Canada" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Book: DNA, Promise and Peril
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:19:09 -0500
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How nice that they have nice families with accurate memories and few secrets.

Perhaps someone needs to go over their monthly bills with them too.
Cable TV? Cell Phone? Internet? I bet they pay more than a basic 12
marker test every single month for these things. Frivolous and
ancestrally uninformative. ;-)

On 4/17/08, <> wrote:

This is what the McCabes think about genealogy DNA testing:
"These laboratory analyses are expensive. Studies indicate that an
individual's knowledge of his or her ancestry is relatively accurate.
In medical genetics, we know that one of the least expensive and most
powerful genetic tools available to us is a good family history. The
decision to carry out DNA testing for ancestry will be up to the
individual. A far less expensive and excellent alternative available
to many of us is to learn about our ancestry from the elders in our
families. In addition, relatives' stories will have far more cultural
meaning than biological measures of ancestry."



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Regards,
Rebekah
ISOGG Resource Coordinator
Volunteer Administrator: H mtDNA Project; Q yDNA Project; Scandinavian
yDNA Project
Co-Administrator: I1a yDNA Project
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stultitiam et agnovi quod in his quoque esset labor et adflictio
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