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Back to the Beginning

On August 27, 2005, I was featured on the radio show "Weekend America" which airs on Saturdays largely via NPR-affiliated radio stations in markets all over the country.

I was interviewed by host Bill Radke about my extensive genealogical research and more recent successes confirming the ancestral ethnicities of 11 of my forebearers.

Radke was curious to know if this newly discovered information somehow changed or strengthened my identity as a Black person.

Click here to hear the interview (~12 minutes).

TV interview on Rabb ancestry

In the winter of 2002 (I think), not long after I received the DNA test results for my paternal Rabb lineage that previous September, I was featured in a piece on African-American genealogy and DNA testing on the local Philadelphia Fox News affiliate.

The interview revolved around how I complemented my extensive genealogical research with newly developed DNA testing that could approximate what part of the world one's ancestors hailed from generations ago. This, scientists and scholars believe, most closely correlates to modern conceptions of race and ethnicity, neither of which have a biological basis. No doubt such findings appear to have some value to those members of communities whose socio-political identity they feel somehow relates to people, places and cultures from which they have been estranged over the generations.

Click here to watch the short video excerpt.