In a message dated 8/20/2011 2:10:15 A.M. Central Daylight Time, chantillycarpets@earthlink.net writes: Before this time we have had thousands of years of population migrations, plagues, wars, the potato famine and life which in itself has wiped out lots of other evidences. So we now have genetic genealogy on the survivors who can afford it, peddled to the public so that we can fill in our ancestral trees (which by enlarge will yet not be filled in with any certainty beyond the time of the written record keeping) and look back into time to see who we really are, or can we really? And does it make a bit of difference really? But we are spending enormous amounts of time debating over the importance of it and how this group must be more elite than the next because of....Bah Hum Bug! I have no idea what you're talking about. Who in this group or anywhere else talked about being more elite than the next? Is this some kind of reference to Niall? Do you think being descended from Niall makes someone superior to one who is not? I don't. This sounds like a rant against DNA testing in general. If so I agree with you to some extent. DNA is not answering many of the questions I have. I've said that several times before. John