{"id":2810,"date":"2018-05-09T20:43:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T20:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2018-05-09T20:43:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T20:43:35","slug":"lesser-on-ancestry-and-dna-testing-in-the-atlanta-journal-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2018\/05\/09\/lesser-on-ancestry-and-dna-testing-in-the-atlanta-journal-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesser on Ancestry and DNA Testing in &#8216;The Atlanta Journal Constitution&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>History Department Chair <a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/lesser-jeffrey.html\">Jeffrey Lesser<\/a> recently commented on the expanding use of DNA tests to chart an individuals&#8217; ancestry in\u00a0<em>The Atlanta Journal Constitution.\u00a0<\/em>The article, titled &#8220;Do popular DNA tests like 23andMe, Ancestry actually work?&#8221; explores the motivations for taking these tests and the results they provide. Lesser, a specialist in immigration and ethnicity, asserted that\u00a0&#8220;There are lots of different ways of understanding heritage. I think as historians, we&#8217;re interested in why people believe what they do, which is quite different than saying that people are something.&#8221; Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/science\/popular-dna-tests-like-23andme-ancestry-actually-work\/jAeOglO3vAIWimeH961UBI\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History Department Chair Jeffrey Lesser recently commented on the expanding use of DNA tests to chart an individuals&#8217; ancestry in\u00a0The Atlanta Journal Constitution.\u00a0The article, titled &#8220;Do popular DNA tests like 23andMe, Ancestry actually work?&#8221; explores the motivations for taking these tests and the results they provide. Lesser, a specialist in immigration and ethnicity, asserted that\u00a0&#8220;There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}