In a message dated 5/7/01 12:15:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, FrankMM3@aol.com writes: << I don't know about BYU, but there was an interesting article in the New Yorker recently where an individual was able to use a private firm to do such testing and get meaningful results. >> not without mary thousands test samples they couldnt. this is the story they have many test samples from american blacks but they have no tree saying where they come from . so they need many samples of blacks who who left or stayed in africa so they can delvelope a base.once they get say 200000 of those when they get an american black they should be able to see the trace elements of certain locations and tell an american slave black where his family lived in africa. they can know separate south italy from north and different parts of ireland . the more samples the easier to locate the area jim all denning-dever-cogan in mass-some malone-carroll-mcguire-doherty-mcneil-piscopo-mazzola-heslin-martini-feddis-fa rley-dennen-dinan-fredricks- ____________________________________ "we go to school to learn the words of fools" bob dylan