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.
