The Genographic Project 2.0
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| Dr. Spencer Wells |
That
sounds amazing. Like out of this world technology that I’d love to
get my hands on. But the packet costs two hundred dollars and you
have to be eighteen or older to purchase. I’m not eighteen. I
really want to learn about my ancestry and where I come from. I know
I have ancestors from Italy, Germany, Norway, and God knows where
else. So I’m assuming that it’s safe to say that I’m mostly of
European descent, which makes sense because Italy, Germany, and
Norway are in Europe.
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| The package that you purchase to become part of the project |
I
don’t want to learn about my ancestors for the sake of knowing. I
want to know their names, where they lived, why the migrated the way
they did, why they came to Ellis Island (if any of them did). I want
to know everything that there is possible to know. It is something
that I think about a lot of the time. If I took this test (which is a
long cotton q-tip with cheek spit) hypothetically, the results would
be surprising. But that is why I want to do this. I want the
surprises.
This
test would give me the basic answers that I’m looking for: Where do
my ancestors come from? Of course, I would need to find out all my
other questions at some other place because the cheek spit test
doesn’t tell you names, it just tells you where. But for each
location that your ancestors belong
ed to, it’ll tell you the
percentage. So for example, you could have 25% ancestry from Africa
or 6% from Mexico or any percentage from ANYWHERE. That percentage is
called your “genome” and with percentages, once you add them up,
they’ll equal one hundred, hopefully.
Learning
about my ancestry is a secret passion that I have. And hopefully one
day I’ll be able to purchase that package, and my parents will each
purchase a packet too. Then I’d embark on a journey of nothing like
ever before.
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| What you'd view on your computer once you get the results back |
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