Where We're From ~ DNA Will Tell You

In 2005 I purchased Genographic Project DNA tests as Mother's Day and Father's Day presents for my parents that were developed by the National Geographic Society and IBM. My father had been an amateur genealogist for decades and we'd long known nearly 400 years of French Huguenot heritage on his side and about 200 years of Irish heritage on my mother's.  The haplogroups and geographic migrations since the Last Glacial Maximum revealed by the tests were unexpected and surprising. My paternal side traced earlier to Kurdistan, Afghanistan, and from Murmansk, Russia on the maternal side.

Such knowledge provides essential perspective and a broader sense of oneness and belonging.