Ken has been having lots of fun tracing his ancestry. He reports that the internet has gotten better and better over the past few years. And he has looked at other relatives too. One of Irene's ancestor lived in Nova Scotia. On Ken's mothers side, he has been able to trace the family back many hundreds of years. Up till the past few years, he has said he was of Irish, Scottish descent. But he found relatives on his family tree who were English, French and Dutch. Horrors.
Today on the internet he received the results of his saliva test telling his heritage, which turns out to be 75% Scots/Irish, 23% Scandinavian and 2% Sardinian. Now how did that Italian person get into his family genes? Very interesting.
Ancestry.com provides the service. You pay them money and they give you instructions. After you send in your saliva, the lab checks your genetics and sends you the results. It is all high tech and fancy. Also fun. Even ten years ago, this technology was unavailable. But not anymore. What a wonderful world we live in.
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