From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Feb 10 10:36:59 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1AHaxE0021067; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:36:59 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1AHatH5025062 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:36:55 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1AF8JFI009156 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:08:19 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1AF8J7X009155 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:08:19 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k1AEXAFI009050 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:33:10 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1AH1bHY001206 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:01:37 -0700 X-Envelope-From: elizhgene@gmail.com Fri Feb 10 10:01:37 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1AH1bE0001195 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:01:37 -0700 Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.201]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1AH1XVg032372 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:01:34 -0700 Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id y2so349459uge for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:01:30 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=BQgsvhQQekdBtuy3vVdRSq4rpMR2j8sHG4kuETDHQiHTfu3haYxBehU3LzaslhO7NL3H86f7XmUFzYzVlzTcujx65fKfj8D2dNZqFZyxtjWMmSP026LlAQXrlcfRtB2iaHoEZZl0MduTBGMnMUrvNEMwrs4F2XvzM0d+wp8DNEw= Received: by 10.48.218.10 with SMTP id q10mr2970627nfg; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:01:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.66.5 with HTTP; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:01:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:01:29 -0500 From: Eliz Hanebury To: "MaeMay510@aol.com" Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] African American DNA Cc: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com In-Reply-To: <246.6a9846b.311dfe6f@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <246.6a9846b.311dfe6f@aol.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com I thought that was fascinating, and isn't it interesting in how much we are vested in who we "are", in the way we have learned to view ourselves. African Americans looking punched in the face because they had more "white" blood than they thought, or didn't have the Indian they thought they did, or Mae Jemison who was gobsmacked to find she was 25% Asian tho she looks every percent of it. And Chris Tucker who was 100% subsarahan This is even better than Meet the Ancestors or Time Team on HistoryInternationl Channel. Eliz On 2/10/06, MaeMay510@aol.com wrote: > > > In a message dated 2/10/2006 8:01:08 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > Let me second this posting. I saw it last week and it was absolutely > compelling. The one part of it I really enjoyed was the DNA test which > traced the mother's mitochondrial dna to different parts of the world. I > would love to have that test done on me. I'm going to do research and > see > if I can. > > > > I caught the last half of the second part of the two part series and was > fascinated. I do hope the series will be repeated. > Mitochondria research is one of the most fascinating. If I understand it > properly, it will take us back to a mother-land. > I wasn't aware, however, of the specific racial make-up that could be > discerned by the test. This, too, is intriguing. > > Shirley Maynard > Hampton, VA > > >