Hi All, Some of you may have read this book by Adam Rutherford which is called A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived." Rutherford is a geneticist and it's written in as easy to read style and explains quite a lot about DNA testing, some of the pitfalls of doing this, and also that there actually is no such thing as "race" from a genetic viewpoint. For instance,  a person in Kenya can be more genetically similar to a person in Finland, than two Finnish people are to each other. It also explains in a very gruesome way what happens when cousins keep marrying cousins and supplied examples for the royal families of Europe who have economic and territorial reasons for doing this in the past. A good read if you have some spare time! Eilish

Hello cousin Eilish, That sounds fascinating, and fits in neatly with my recent interest in the Spanish Royal family. Also agree with her re 'race', paleoanthropology shows this. Shall see if the local library has, or is willing, to obtain it. Lovely to catch up again! Hugs, Dee. -----Original Message----- From: Eilish Gmail [mailto:eilish7@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 9 April 2018 5:50 PM To: fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com Subject: FERMANAGH-GOLDUnderstanding DNA and why not to marry your cousins repeatedly FERMANAGH-GOLD@rootsweb.com Hi All, Some of you may have read this book by Adam Rutherford which is called A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived." Rutherford is a geneticist and it's written in as easy to read style and explains quite a lot about DNA testing, some of the pitfalls of doing this, and also that there actually is no such thing as "race" from a genetic viewpoint. For instance, a person in Kenya can be more genetically similar to a person in Finland, than two Finnish people are to each other. It also explains in a very gruesome way what happens when cousins keep marrying cousins and supplied examples for the royal families of Europe who have economic and territorial reasons for doing this in the past. A good read if you have some spare time! Eilish _______________________________________________ To post a message to the Fermanagh-Gold mailing list, send an email to Fermanagh-Gold@rootsweb.com. ________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to Fermanagh-Gold-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and in the body of the email with no additional text. To contact the Fermanagh-Gold list administrator, send an email to Fermanagh-Gold-admin@rootsweb.com. ------------------------------------- facebook.com/groups/FermanaghGold/ _______________________________________________ You are receiving this email because you have registered with RootsWeb Mailing Lists. Manage your email preferences at: https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/postorius/accounts/subscriptions/ To unsubscribe send an email to mailto:fermanagh-gold-leave@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe View the archives for this list at: https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/hyperkitty/list/fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com/ Your privacy is important to us. View our Privacy Statement at https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/privacystatement for more information. Use of RootsWeb is subject to our Terms and Conditions https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/termsandconditions RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

That sounds fascinating. Will search it out. Lindsey -----Original Message----- From: Eilish Gmail [mailto:eilish7@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 9 April 2018 5:20 PM To: fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com Subject: FERMANAGH-GOLDUnderstanding DNA and why not to marry your cousins repeatedly FERMANAGH-GOLD@rootsweb.com Hi All, Some of you may have read this book by Adam Rutherford which is called A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived." Rutherford is a geneticist and it's written in as easy to read style and explains quite a lot about DNA testing, some of the pitfalls of doing this, and also that there actually is no such thing as "race" from a genetic viewpoint. For instance, a person in Kenya can be more genetically similar to a person in Finland, than two Finnish people are to each other. It also explains in a very gruesome way what happens when cousins keep marrying cousins and supplied examples for the royal families of Europe who have economic and territorial reasons for doing this in the past. A good read if you have some spare time! Eilish _______________________________________________ To post a message to the Fermanagh-Gold mailing list, send an email to Fermanagh-Gold@rootsweb.com. ________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to Fermanagh-Gold-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and in the body of the email with no additional text. To contact the Fermanagh-Gold list administrator, send an email to Fermanagh-Gold-admin@rootsweb.com. ------------------------------------- facebook.com/groups/FermanaghGold/ _______________________________________________ You are receiving this email because you have registered with RootsWeb Mailing Lists. Manage your email preferences at: https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/postorius/accounts/subscriptions/ To unsubscribe send an email to mailto:fermanagh-gold-leave@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe View the archives for this list at: https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/hyperkitty/list/fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com/ Your privacy is important to us. View our Privacy Statement at https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/privacystatement for more information. Use of RootsWeb is subject to our Terms and Conditions https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/termsandconditions RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community