{"id":5281,"date":"2007-10-08T17:29:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T17:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geni.com\/blog\/?p=5281"},"modified":"2007-10-08T17:29:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T17:29:26","slug":"dna-the-ultim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/dna-the-ultim-5281.html","title":{"rendered":"DNA – The Ultimate Link"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introducing Our Guest Blogger, Bennett Greenspan, President of Family Tree DNA<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Genealogy is the ultimate ‘family social network’ because it unites and reunites long lost and far flung family members. During the past 4 centuries our ancestors have spread out from (basically) European roots and traveled to all corners of the world\u2026 in most cases carrying only the clothes on their backs and their name with them\u2026. and that\u2019s the point\u2026 they carried their names with them.<\/p>\n

Since the advent of DNA testing for genealogy (and anthropology) began in earnest in 2000 over 350,000 people worldwide have tested either their paternal lineage or their maternal lineage, or both.  (Note: sons receive both a Y chromosome from their fathers and their mothers\u2019 mitochondria while daughters only receive mom\u2019s mitochondria\u2026not fair, but we are dealing with Mother Nature).  Databases for comparison purposes have begun to offer tantalizing opportunities for matching… and real social and familial networking.  The market has evolved from one of skepticism\u2026 \u201cYou want MY DNA\u2026 are you nuts?", to guarded interest, and now, in 2007 to cocktail conversation ("My ancestors were Vikings even though we\u2019ve lived in England for 1000 years").<\/p>\n

"Armchair Anthropologist\u201d seems to be the watchword of the year as newspapers, magazines and blogger\u2019s have gotten into the act.  Of recent note was the Vanity Fare masthead (July 2007) which showed nearly every magazine employees\u2019 Haplogroup\u2014the branch of the tree that one descends from.  Other interesting examples of the social nature of genetic testing was the reunion, in Harlem this spring of the West family which united, or reunited the sons of colonial plantation owners cousin who were borne of an African mother and a slave owning father.  It might sound like a clich\u00e9, but in the arena the best is likely yet to come\u2026stay tuned. <\/p>\n

–Bennett Greenspan<\/em><\/p>\n

Family Tree DNA<\/a> is a pioneer in the field of DNA testing and today has the one of the largest DNA databases in the world. You can learn more about DNA and DNA Testing by going to Family Tree DNA<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Introducing Our Guest Blogger, Bennett Greenspan, President of Family Tree DNA Genealogy is the ultimate ‘family social network’ because it unites and reunites long lost and far flung family members. During the past 4 centuries our ancestors have spread out from (basically) European roots and traveled to all corners of the world\u2026 in most cases carrying only the clothes on their backs and their name with them\u2026. and that\u2019s the point\u2026 they carried their names… Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}