frogdreaming,
if you are unable to accept the possibility that there is any connection between DNA and geographical origin, then I might suggest that you are invested in the wrong company.
You might well do much better investing my money than I can but I prefer to do it my way. Thank you so much for your offer.
"Connection" is open to interpretation. Cause and effect is what must be determined for a statistical association to have validity or the Super Bowl Indicator would have even beaten darts as a tool for predicting the stock market.
Some Gypsies insist angrily that they should be only referred to as Roma or even Rroma. Most do not become upset at much of anything. I use the term Gypsy following only for clarity without any intent to demean a most amazing people whose ability to survive is seen with genocide occurring even today in Eastern Europe.
Anyone interested in this mysterious people might like to read Bury Me Standing. ("Bury me standing," requested a Gypsy. "I have had to live my life on my knees.")
Rat Dog Dick is the most interesting name of a detective agency in San Francisco headed by a real life woman detective who made her fame and fortune tracking down a deadbeat Gypsy (or is that a redundancy), a most amazing feat.
Time and space mean little to Gypsies who can easily traverse geographical boundaries like few others.
Though there would be little in records available from a people who have little use for the written word, the group might be far more suitable for study of genetics than Icelanders because of their unwillingness to marry outside the group. The Gypsy who does so is ostracized.
Unraveling the history of the Gypsies is a most difficult task. They seem to have originated in India and thus the animosity to "Gypsy," implying an Egyptian origin.
In no other population, beyond primitive cultures isolated perhaps in such a place as the Amazon jungle, might there be such an easy task of matching ethnicity and genetics.
If you want to know something, frog, it might be best to ask. It is perhaps better to learn by keeping one's ears open than one's mouth.
Best, Terry
Best, Terry
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