Life Accelerated

A Thought of Thanksgiving

    It is usually around this time of the year that I begin to think about all the things I am so very thankful for in my life.  I am thankful for the people who support me at whatever I am doing, specifically my sisters and brothers who have always been there for me.

   I am also thankful to be working at something I love doing. I am thankful for my health, and for all of my friends and family. And last, but not least, I am thankful to all the wonderful, unique people I have met through my work every day. These individuals have inspired me to achieve greater things with my life and have filled me with joy every day.
    Thank you!

My Genetic Journey

To explore some of the curiosity  I've had about my deep ancestral origins, I began to explore my pesonal lineage by participating in National Geographic's Genographic Project. 

The first step involved was to purchase a kit on the National Geographics Website.  Once the kit arrived I took two painless cheek swabs to acquire a DNA sample.  Then I secured the swabs inside a transport tube and mailed the tube off to the National Geographics lab using the supplied envelope.  I was able to log into the Genographic Project Web site and track my test kit, step by step, through the various stages of DNA processing and analysis.

I am excited about the results because the connection to my ancestral origins were broken by slavery and now  I have information about my earliest human relative, Mitochondrical Eve--an African born 150, 000 to 170, 0000 years ago and lived in West and Central  Sub-Saharan  Africa.    My genetic journey has just begun, I entered the results in the Family Tree DNA Database so that when like  results are entered I am notified of a possible match to a distant relative.

What are your thoughts about genetic tests that reveal family history?