http://www.blisstree.com/articles/ancestral-dna-testing/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:44:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.blisstree.com/articles/ancestral-dna-testing/comment-page-1/#comment-568789 Barb Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:01:07 +0000 http://www.geneticsandhealth.com/2006/08/28/ancestral-dna-testing/#comment-568789 I found out when I was 44 that I had been adopted at about 6 weeks. I have been a historian and anthropologist. How about guessing how tramautic that was for me. It was like a nuclear shock bomb went off. I had lost my heritage. Not my history ... my HERITAGE. If there is a way to tell where I came from, and who my ancestors were, I would have no qualms about finding out. I never expect anything, therefore I am never disappointed in what I get or find out. Nothing can be as devasting as learning you were adopted ... to many people like myself anyway. I cannot afford to be tested, but know in my heart the difference it would make to me. To ACTUALLY KNOW what ethnicity I am, what nationality, who my ancestors were and anything else that could be provided. I know the prices for testing are coming down, but I barely scrape by now ... and wish there were a way I could find out now ... and have a kind of closure, and pride in who I am NOW. I found out when I was 44 that I had been adopted at about 6 weeks. I have been a historian and anthropologist. How about guessing how tramautic that was for me. It was like a nuclear shock bomb went off. I had lost my heritage. Not my history … my HERITAGE. If there is a way to tell where I came from, and who my ancestors were, I would have no qualms about finding out. I never expect anything, therefore I am never disappointed in what I get or find out. Nothing can be as devasting as learning you were adopted … to many people like myself anyway. I cannot afford to be tested, but know in my heart the difference it would make to me. To ACTUALLY KNOW what ethnicity I am, what nationality, who my ancestors were and anything else that could be provided. I know the prices for testing are coming down, but I barely scrape by now … and wish there were a way I could find out now … and have a kind of closure, and pride in who I am NOW.

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