The Vox article link on DNA testing is also posted here on ExtremeGenes.com. Here is Blaine Bettinger’s response in TheGeneticGenealogist.com. Hear his visit with me on Episode 60 of the podcast (out on Monday 10/6) which is airing on our Extreme Genes Radio Network this weekend.
http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/2014/09/13/response-genetic-testing-article-vox/
Nice article! I’ve been curious about DNA testing. When I began researching my family tree, over 30 yrs. ago, my folks didn’t talk about our family much, mostly because they were not told themselves. When I began, both of my Grandmothers did not want me to do the research, they were afraid I’d find “skeleton’s in the closet.” My view is/was “that was them, its not me!” Heck, don’t we all have some “skeletons” anyway? I guess if you don’t do the research you’ll never know for sure. But I also have a major “roadblock” that I’ve have for those years of research, at my 4th Great Grandfather. (I’ve never known his wife, or parents).
Perhaps, the DNA tests can aide a researcher with the type of “roadblocks” I have, to reveal what’s been hidden for so many of us.