The excerpt is from an article found at the Huffington Post:
A Second Chance to Be a Genetic Pioneer
Posted: 08/02/2012 11:05 am
Megan Smolenyak—Genealogy Expert, Author of “Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing” & “Who Do You Think You Are?”
Whenever I address an audience of new genealogists, I tell them that they were smart to wait. Though I have no regrets about having started my sleuthing in the pre-Internet Dark Ages, those taking their first steps today can often learn more in a day than I did in a month. The same can now be said about genetic genealogy.
Genetic genealogy — DNA testing done for the purpose of learning about one’s roots — has been around for about a decade, but a recent development suggests that we’ve reached the pioneering sweet spot — that window of time during which it’s still early enough to be a trendsetter, but not so early that you pay dearly (both in terms of cost and learning curve) for the privilege.
The recent development is the announcement of the pending introduction (anticipated in October) of Geno 2.0by National Geographic. True, more than half a million have participated since the Genographic Project first launched in 2005, but that still makes new participants bleeding edge in our global population of seven billion. And as the website explains, it’s learning more about that global population that the Project is focused on:“The Genographic Project is an ambitious attempt to answer fundamental questions about where we originated and how we came to populate the Earth. Through your participation, you can play an active role in this historic endeavor.”
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