[CobaltBlue]

I have made up my mind to take one of the mitochondrial DNA tests just for fun, but it seems that each lab keeps its own database, and so far I haven't seen anyplace that pools the data.

Have you had that done yet? Being male, you can do the Y-chromasome one, too.

Maybe I should be deferential to the parents and let them take the tests, since the data for my mom should be the same as for me.

[blam]

"Have you had that done yet?"

No, I haven't. I did propose to my son at Christmas that there is the making of a business here. I expect everyone has relatives they don't want to know about though.

[Quix]

Nat Geographic Society's collaborators seem to have one of the largest . . . But their initial fee is $100 essentially and then additional male side research is another $164 or some such from the company holding the DNA and the mother's side another $70 or so.