WHERE YOU FROM?

    WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25TH., 2018
             WHERE YOU FROM?

     Today you may find yourself asking
yourself where you're from. And I don't
mean what town!
      The question would be appropriate
because April 25th is World DNA Day!
It celebrates the day in 1953 when a team
of scientists first published a paper on the
structure of human DNA.
       We've come a long way since then.
Maybe too far!
        Of course DNA technology has done
a great deal of good especially in the
criminal justice field where innocent
men have been freed and guilty parties
have been convicted.
       DNA evidence has also lead to
great revelations like the actual identity
of the "unknown child from the Titanic."
       But DNA has also spawned a big
business as people use it to search their
family backgrounds.
        My wife and one of her brothers
have taken DNA tests that trace family
back to several different countries. It
even identified a woman said to be a
close DNA match to both of them that
neither of them know or ever heard
about!
        Then there's the connection my
wife supposedly has to another family
in New York that, if accurate, could
give her a role in the next Godfather
movie! I'm not so sure we want to
know too much more about that!
           I've seen that guy on TV
who thought he was German and
now wears a kilt since his DNA
traced his family to Scotland.
          I'd look terrible in a kilt so I
think I'll just rely on family stories
that trace one side back to the
American Revolution and the other
to great-great-grandparents from the
same town in Italy.
          Asking anymore could risk
tying me to some rival family in
New York!
          Hope you know where you're
from and that all your NEWS is good!