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Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:02:16 -0400 From: afra dias <goanet@goanet.org> To: goanet@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet]Re: Non Goans Reply-To: goanet@goanet.org Santosh wrote: All Goans are non-Goans. All of them migrated from elsewhere - places such as Chhota Nagpur, Central Asia, Europe and Africa. Cheers, Santosh. Afra says; RUBBISH! What proof have you got. Where as, Goans did migrate to Mangalore. Afra Dias (London) This debate is part of the reason why IBM and National Geographic teamed up to undertake the Genographic study with funding from the Wiatt Family Foundation. You can be part of the study by purchasing a DNA test kit from NG and submitting it for analysis together with some family history. https://www5.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/ It aims to answer some interesting questions like "Which humans first colonized India?" However, at least one group, the Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism (IPCB), has announced its opposition to the research, based on concerns that the data would be misused. http://loper.org/~george/trends/2005/Apr/945.html Kevin Saldanha Mississauga, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
