We finally decided to take the plunge and do DNA testing. I was initially untrusting of the whole thing, but decided this may be the only way we're able to make any breakthroughs in the Joyce family research.
We waited for the tests to go on sale, and they finally did - $69, down from $99. Today, the spit has been spat and they'll go back to Ancestry in tomorrow's mail. Then comes 6-8 weeks of waiting patiently (not). As I mentioned, we are most interested in hubby's Joyce line, hoping to make contact with a distant cousin descended from one of his great-great grandfather's siblings. As for me, my most intense interest right now is to see how Ancestry's DNA algorithms handle double cousins. My double cousin Shane has already been tested, and since we should have more genetics in common than typical first cousins, but not quite as much as siblings, it will be interesting to see how this is interpreted.
In the last six months, I've been reading stories of DNA surprises. I'm not expecting anything to pop up from these tests, but then again, most of the people who got surprises probably weren't either. At any rate, it's interesting. I will post updates here.
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