Eric Karns

Apparently there is now a blood test which can predict if you will eventually be stricken with Alzheimer’s disease. For those of us with a family history of the disease this scientific progress could be considered a good thing. But seeing as how there is no cure for the disease I wonder if I would like to know my future or not. Would you like to know what diseases you might develop even though there’s nothing you can do to prevent it?

I would, however love to eventually have a genetic genealogy test. It would be very interesting to see where your ancestors come from. This is something that has always fascinated me and a recent mini-series on the subject (which found that the president of the NAACP as well as the producer, Quincy Jones had significant European roots) reinvigorated my interest in the subject.