Unveiling the Deep Ancestry of Swiss Anabptist Forebears

My recent article in the July 2010 issue of Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage extends genealogy and famly history research to a whole new level, that of one's deep ancestry.  Imagine uncovering which of your ancestors have Greco-Roman, central Asian or Mid-Eastern ancestry.  Imagine discovering that one's ancestry shares a DNA signature with the ancient Hebrews or ancient Egyptians.  Imagine finding a common ancestor among the indigenous tribes of India, the Chaldeans of the Tigris and Euphrates, or the ancient peoples of East Africa.  Today family historians, through the interpretation of genealogically-based DNA testing, can not only speculate origins prior to written records but prove family connections back thousands of years.