OK, You Pin Him Down and I'll Swab His Cheek

Genealogy an "extreme sport?" In its latest installment in a series of articles exploring the "DNA Age," this New York Times piece probes the lengths to which amateur genealogists go in order to get the goods: DNA sequences of their closest living relatives. Unlike paper records, which can be hard to come by and even harder to verify, a genetic test can quickly and definitively tell if someone is a relative. At $99 a pop, it's plausible that you could find out if you're actually related to J. Craig. The question remains, would you really want to know?