Ancestry and Origins: Update
For my husband’s birthday, I decided to get us both DNA ancestry kit. When it ar rived, we spit in a tube and sent it off to the company. Within weeks, we had our genetic ancestry laid out in a pie chart. My results weren’t a surprise. My father’s family was easily traced to southern Italy, around the Naples area. In fact, there is a city in the arch of the boot called Potenza. Forty percent of my DNA was ‘Italian of Greek’. My mother’s family had been in the United States, probably even before the Revolutionary War, for generations, …