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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]NRaleighLiberal
(60,013 posts)I've done quite a bit of traditional genealogy and do find it interesting.
I don't consider paying that fee a good use of my money right now (we are both self employed and are careful with our spending).
Though it would be interesting to get genealogical/origin information, I want no part in knowing propensity for this or that affliction. My feeling is that knowing such things would change how we look at our future. I'd simply rather now know if I was in some genetic bullseye for a particular disease that I really can't do anything about.
So, knowing that part of my family came from Kent area in the UK, to Cape Cod, (and that Sir Walter Raleigh is a very very distant relative) - and that another part is from Austria - and the two other parts are from Normandy France, via Quebec, into Michigan, into New England - all done spending fascinating hours on line with Ancestry.com - that's plenty enough for me. I know from a family reunion that I am 1/16 Jewish. It's all fun stuff - realizing that one is a kind of genetic mixmaster!