From: MB@nospam.net   
      
   On 19/04/2019 17:59, Doug Laidlaw wrote:   
   > Firstly, I am a number-cruncher only when I am bored and have nothing   
   > better to do.  I always think of the man who discovered he was related   
   > to Carthaginian sailors and was _so_ pleased.  [The Carthaginians were   
   > good as sailors, but for their army, they engaged mercenaries.]   
   >   
   > Secondly, DNA testing has often done more harm than good.  In one case,   
   > the applicant discovered she had none of her father's DNA.  In a case I   
   > have just been reading, a couple decided to take a DNA test.  It showed   
   > that the male partner was related to a serial killer.  His g-f couldn't   
   > handle this, and left him.  Maybe she was looking for a way to split,   
   > and this was her excuse, as the comforters on social media suggested.   
   > But in both cases, there were facts that it was better not to know.  I   
   > have enough inherited illnesses; I don't need to know about any others.   
      
   I suppose any knowledge is dangerous if misused.  Knowing that your   
   father was not your father could explain a lot of things.  I watched an   
   American programme where a lady found that out.  The presenter explained   
   that she had been adopted, she had found her birth father but her   
   adoptive father was still the person who brought her up so it did not   
   affect her feelings for him.   
      
   Last night I watched the first of the new series of WDYTYA USA last   
   night, they did not use any DNA research but the subject found that his   
   9x Great Grandfather was Scottish and was going on about "feeling   
   Scottish"!  I expected him to go out and try and get a deep friend Mars   
   bar.   
      
   On the other hand I managed to "re-unite" someone with his birth mother   
   after being adopted at birth nearly sixty years ago - through my DNA   
   test even though not that close a relative.   
      
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