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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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 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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I’m a newspaper freak and I am loving Gale Cengage company right now. From now until April 24th they are offering free access to several databases in honor of National Library Week. This is just a quick post to send you over to the NCGenWeb Blog for more details and the link to access it.
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I love newspapers. I truly do. Anything I can do to promote their accessibility is one of my passions. I am pleased now to learn that an African-American newspaper of Evansville, Indiana (where my husband’s family is from), is now available in it’s online! The Evansville Argus was published from June 25, 1938 – October
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Today, while visiting the website of the National Library of Medicine for work purposes, I noticed an announcement of a new online exhibit titled, “Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine.” The online exhibit focuses on the specific contributions of African-Americans as nurses, surgeons and hospital workers. There are 5 main
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One of my favorite historical newspaper resources is the Chronicling America site by the National Digital Newspaper Program partnership between the Library of Congress & the National Endowment for the Humanities. The site contains digital images of newspapers from 16 states covering 188-1922 and is a valuable source of information in our genealogical research. The
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I posted this on the NCGenWeb blog, but I wanted to do a quick mention here too. I recently learned that back in March, Google implemented a browse feature in Google News Archive that now makes it much easier to determine what issues of a specific paper have been digitized. So far, I’ve made a
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Well now! Here’s another example of how much penetration genealogy is getting. As I was uploading a document to Scribd.com, I saw that they have now added a designation under their Research category for genealogy! That was not there a few weeks ago when I last uploaded a document and needless to say I
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