Spitting in a bottle. It’s all the rage these days.
Everyone is eager to have their DNA checked. ’Taint cheap though; anything from $90 to $120. And for what... something to show everyone or something you would rather keep secret...you takes yer chances!
The ‘WBS book’ has little to say about genealogies. Commentators suggest ‘back then’ that people would show their distinguished lineage in order to settle arguments or to prove a point of superiority. It seems wise to believe if a person is a less than a decent person, the best genealogy in the world is not is not going to alter that fact...
Both my wife and I were born in the UK, of good stock! Our family is anything but ‘frightfully British’; it has turned into a melting pot of the United Nations. Who needs a lineage chart...they get along fine without one!
Pssst...I had a DNA testing courtesy of one of my daughters.... 91% British, and then 500 to 1000 years ago, 5% Scots/Irish, 2% Swedish and 2% Norwegian... Oh, those marauding invaders!
What else did I discover? I was given information related to four second cousins and about a dozen third cousins. Three of the second cousins I already knew, and I made contact with the fourth. I have contacted one of the third...
No signs of royalty....
