Did you see CSI tonight, they included genealogy in the story line along with genetics.

Talking with my parents I found out there have been mental health issues on both sides of my family. I am starting to wonder if there really is such a thing as a "depression gene". I've joked about it often but I wonder if it's possible. I've read about the possibility of a genetic predisposition for coronary heart disease and that has shown up on both sides of my family.

My dad and brother's business did some work for the Ukrainian National Museum, which is in Chicago. My dad didn't know a lot about his family history. While he was working at the museum they asked him about his Ukrainian family name. So that's how we found out we're not actually Russian but Ukrainian. And my dad's mother came from Poland, no question there. My mom's family is Czech. So I'm Eastern European through and through. We Google searched our last name and found smart people- to whom I'm most likely not related, of course! - a chemist, an attorney, and an award winning chef to name a few. I'm not super smart, that gene has missed me!