Continuing my posts on our 23andMe testing, I continue with a brief description of Kalonji’s Ancestry Painting and what we’ve learned from it. The Ancestry Painting is a feature of 23andMe that shows an analysis of the 22 non-sex chromosomes we inherit from our parents. The result is a beautifully colored image that illustrates DNA […]
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Can you say ecstatic! That is the feeling I am having this weekend after my geneabuddy Billie gave me a microfilm reader. She got it from a library that was closing several years ago. Finding herself not using it any longer, during a recent conversation we had about microfilm, she said she’d be willing to
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My great-grandparents, Abraham & Martha (Walker) McNair, purchased their home in Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina in 1945. While I have a copy of the deed from the local registrar’s office it is not a true copy of the original. My mother found their original deed last week and their signatures are on it. Looking
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On September 8th, I posted my first blog post about genetic testing results from 23andMe regarding Kalonji’s maternal haplogroup. This time, I’m posting about his paternal haplogroup. Kalonji’s paternal haplogroup is E1b1a7a. This haplogroup is subgroup of E1b1a. E1b1a has its origins in sub-saharan Africa. This of course is not surprising to us given Kalonji’s
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This week concluded with an interesting experience for me – I participated in a market research interview for a genealogy company – AppleTree.com. AppleTree is a collaborative genealogy website. They contacted me because of my past blog posts on collaborative genealogy, probably most specifically a post I made about Geni.com and my initial thoughts on
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This blog post is going to be the start of short series of posts I will do about my husband’s 23andMe DNA testing results. We were able to get the kit for free because the company is trying to expand their database of African-American DNA. Currently, most of the health results available are based on
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My mother saw this yesterday while out and about in Florida. Awesomeness. Their website is at http://www.ridetoeternity.com/.
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This week I received in the mail the latest issue of The Florida Genealogist, the publication of the Florida State Genealogical Society. I submitted information to the journal that is extracted from my index I donated to the NCGenWeb Project of students attending North Carolina colleges. Of course there were students from all over, not
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Back in 1997, my paternal grandmother Cora, gave me some family documents that she had in her possession. One was a copy of court proceedings about my grandfather’s death that I’ve blogged about before. Another, is the oldest funeral program that I have in my all of my family files. The obituary is for Randolph
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On July 26th, 23andMe announced a research project called Roots Into the Future. One of my coworkers sent me the announcement and I was quite excited. The program is giving away 10,00 free DNA kits to African-Americans so that they can enhance their database. I quickly signed up and yesterday received my notice to go
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