From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Feb 10 21:58:28 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 k1B4wSE0001985; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:58:28 -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 k1B4wQxk008609 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:58:26 -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 k1B2TnFI010874 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:29:49 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1B2TnfG010873 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:29:49 -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 k1B1J8FI010710 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:19:08 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1B3lYVI013112 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:47:34 -0700 X-Envelope-From: glen@glentodd.net Fri Feb 10 20:47:34 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 k1B3lYE0013103 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:47:34 -0700 Received: from mx1.warpdrive.net (mx1.warpdrive.net [24.56.130.31]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1B3lWIk024221 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:47:32 -0700 Received: from smtp-1 (mta1-2.warpdriveonline.com [24.56.130.8]) by mx1.warpdrive.net (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id E788FD0302E5 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:47:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail1.warpdriveonline.com (mail.warpdriveonline.com [24.56.136.181]) by smtp-1 (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k1B3gCZt009064 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:42:12 -0500 Received: from [24.56.181.38] (account glentodd@warpdriveonline.com HELO groucho) by mail1.warpdriveonline.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.7) with ESMTPA id 16390067 for ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:54:30 -0500 From: "Glen Todd" To: Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:44:06 -0700 Message-ID: <002701c62ebd$691db8d0$0101a8c0@HighReaches.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <200602110301.k1B31niH005713@lists5.rootsweb.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Thread-Index: AcYuu4wM/CLKHtgzTEKmfaQIUWqxCAAAQAZQ X-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at warpdrive.net 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 Subject: [ROOTS-L] RE: African American DNA > What was so funny about the man that found out that he had so > much European Ancestry in him is that he is the chair of the > African American Studies Dept at his college. I shouldn't think > it would matter that much about his ancestry because it is his > cultural identity that really counts. The two are tied together a lot more closely than some people would like to admit. After all, my ancestry sets my identity; I couldn't simply decide to be something else that was more fashionable or paid better. > Though I certainly would like to know my genetic makeup. Been there, done that. (Although in my case the results contained no surprises.) Glen