RE >This test for DNA has been commercially >available in America for at least 2 years now.
>From Goan Voice UK of 22 Sept 2005 at http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/newsletter/2005/Sept/issue4/ Trace Your Heritage Back Through Thousands of Years for £300 18 Sep. 2005: The Observer. Private DNA tests are being launched in Britain to cash in on a seemingly insatiable desire to search for our ancestors The firms marketing the new DNA tests claim the genetic code in a small amount of saliva can reveal traces of African, Asian, Middle Eastern or Chinese blood that might have entered a person's DNA thousands of years ago as tribal groups roamed across the world Anushka Asthana discovered that although her immediate roots are Indian, her DNA is at least 12 per cent white northern European 1917 words. For full text see http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/story/0,,1572781,00.html Eddie Fernandes