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It's Not Cheap Being a Genealogy Junkie

Oct 09, 2007

The blog Creative Gene breaks down just how much it'll cost you to start compiling your genealogical history. Spurred by last night's 60 Minutes segment, "Reconstructing the Family Tree," the blogger says she'd be willing to shell out $1000, but that only includes about seven genetic tests and a few books on the subject. Unless you've got money to burn and/or friends in high places (or friends who happen to be geneticists and might lend their interpretive knowledge in exchange for dinner), tracing your genealogical roots "isn't exactly a poor man's hobby," she writes.


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