As part of my work on my genealogy I’ve come across what seems like a never-ending ocean of scams and misdirection.

It’s almost as bad as “financial” outlets and gold buggery.

The general take-away is that people are easily fooled by hawkers of “DNA” proof, or “meanings of names”, and of course there is that always desirable Cherokee Princess ancestor which can be proven with a fancy certificate mailed to you for the right price.

We really need to make as part of our foundational primary education curricula the key concepts of human evolution, DNA, genomics, and the like.