Posted on 12/30/2005 4:07:34 AM PST by Pharmboy
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What scares me is a persistent family rumor that -- among with a collection of other dubious ancestors -- we are descended from one of the Hessians. I'd rather not know.
I remember the article too but, you know me, I can't find anything.
How much do I have to bleed on my keyboard and for how long? LOL
a ha!
The Genographic Project (Have Your DNA Checked, Find Your Roots)
National Geographic - IBM | 6-15-2005
Posted on 06/15/2005 11:34:14 AM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1423472/posts
Genes To Help Tell 'Story Of Everybody'
ABC.net | 4-13-2005
Posted on 04/13/2005 4:49:43 PM PDT by blahttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383211/posts
a much older topic, which helps expose some of the inherent foolishness:
The Human Family Tree: 10 Adams and 18 Eves
NY Times | May 2, 2000 | NICHOLAS WADE
Posted on 10/10/2004 8:21:08 PM PDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1241240/posts
Sounds like a good winter project to me. I think I'll sign up if I can scrape together a spare $100.
Now you've let the cat out of the bag. For the coming year, the creos will have a new cavalier dismissal for your posts.
I can live with that, but I hope they don't figure out the whole "ape" thing.
Now you've gone and done it.
Pond Scum Alert!
Pond Scum Alert!
Pond Scum Alert!
I wanted to sign my husband up to donate DNA to the database but was stumped by the following requirement, "My pedigree chart begins with me." Huh? I cannot parse that into English.
http://smgf.org/request_a_free_kit.html
Not sure if they want female DNA as well -- it seems that they do? It's just not clear.
I already tried this.
Results were as I feared. My dad accused me of thinking he wasn't my "real" father and my brother promised to do it but took the kit and it was never seen again.
LOL, just what I imagined!
That was you? You know, your folks probably broke several environmental laws, defaced public property (unless they owned their caves), harmed wildlife in the making of the paintings.... This could run you a pretty penny.
I think "my pedigree chart begins with me" means that I can trace from myself upwards. They require 4-6 generations.
I am amazed at how many lines can be traced back 10 or more generations -- heavy lifting done by people other than myself, I assure you!
Oh, forgot to mention. Husband is "Young, House, Manning, Collingwood, Luttecke, Curtis". Not one of which rings any particular bells.
We can trace parts of my husband's line back 7 generations. We can trace parts of mine for 8 generations. We're pretty much what you'd guess with a quick look at us -- Americans descended from northern and western Europeans. Of course, that's assuming that the research was done properly, and everyone was telling the truth about their children's parentage, etc. I like genealogy -- find it interesting. I'd love to find I have great and noble blood in my ancestry, but I'm just as likely to have lowly or villainous blood! In the end, it's what you do from here on out that matters.
I've been doing genealogy for many years. Doubt very much that we have one drop of noble blood -- no idea whether any villainous blood, neither.
I just get a tremendous kick out of the history of it.
You can trace back the entire written history of America over just a little bit more than 400 years!
I have ancestors who were Native Americans but those are very hard to trace back.
The earliest came over on the Mayflower, or to Jamestown, or were early French-Canadians, including Acadians. There were ones that served in the Revolutionary War, and ones that went west with Lewis and Clark, and ones that fought on both sides of the Civil War.
To heck with nobility! Being an American is as noble as I care to be!
It hink everyone is a cousin 1500 generations removed.
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