You could have had Lafayette's DNA on that goblet!
But then again, what could one do with it?
Maybe French DNA would be discernable among all the New York DNAs that drank with him.
I’d LOVE to have DNA from older relatives, closer to even older ones. I have my mother’s baby hair but it’s cut off with no roots. Waiting for them to get past the roots constraint.
I did track down DNA trying to tie up a family story. Grandmother always said that her half sister was Lucille Mulhall, the daughter of Colonel Zack Mulhall of the Wild West Show. The part that made it make sense was that Uncle Jack remembered when she received tickets to the opening of Soldiers’ Field Stadium for the Wild West show that was a box on the rail. Lucille rode over to talk to grandmother while another cowgirl in a short skirt talked to him. That skirt made an indelible impression on the kid.
So I tracked down another illegitimate descendant of Zack’s and got her DNA. But no connection. I still have no idea if I’ve got the wrong illegitimate line or what.