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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Hekate
(90,642 posts)When you say "will not," you are making a whole lot of assumptions, it seems. Maybe some of them don't want to pay the money. Maybe some of them don't care. Maybe some of them have all the relatives they can handle. You really do not know, do you?
I won't, and I'm white. My husband won't, and he's white.
In my case, my late mother spent about 30 years doing very well researched family genealogies, finishing the fifth fat volume just before she died. You had to have known her, but when she worked on the Southern branch she was actually hoping to find evidence of an African American somewhere. Seriously. She would have told all her relatives, "Ha! So there!" Or words to that effect. But no luck. -- Anyway, I didn't even know there was a Southern connection in the family tree until she started writing them up.
So I've got 5 fat books of family history. And I know all about what ailed everybody my mother was related to and what they died of, because she told me that, too.
As for my husband, what are they going to turn up in his DNA? Europe is a graveyard for his family. He's the child of two Holocaust survivors who didn't want to stir the ashes. Aside from a brief family history he wrote when he was younger, neither does he.
Are you any the wiser now?