For Italian Americans in particular, his ethnicity is of great importance emotionally! Of course, wherever he was born, he appears to have spent so much of his life at sea that he had to be the product of a lot of the different cultures in the Mediterranean area of his day.

Nobody is going to be convinced by the DNA testing--His bones were moved around quite a bit, and there's plenty of credible reason to deny that the official "bones" aren't his, or at least were contaminated. So anyone who doesn't like the results of any genetic testing will be on firm ground in rejecting the analysis. Pointless to do the test, as far as I am concerned.

Mike B in OKlahoma

"Never confuse with malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."