- I am clueless about Nat'l Geographic's project. My mind was
-fixated on the Motherland, and African Ancestry, Inc. was the only
-group who could give me part of what I so desperately wanted to
-know.

Mel, that is not true. It is not the "only" group. I like AA, but I also know that any company that gives you actual haplotype information is useful, maybe more so than some company that "estimates" your origin based on your matches in their database. Why? Because you can take that data and compare it to published data and other databases elsewhere to find even more matches than one company can tell you about.