The links are checked for safety and are compiled here for finding free genealogy. This page has GOOGLE translate and you can click to read it in any language. see the translate button. You can also search the site for any key word(s) for topics of genealogy and genetic genealogy. It also has a few … Continue reading Toronto DNA For Genealogy For All
This is a non-monetized page and no one can pay to be here. I do not do mean or nasty reviews - if someone has failed us we just move on. We support and wish to promote the businesses and services who work with quality and service. These are who we have found so far. … Continue reading Support Your Neighborhood Businesses and Services
Using your own families’ genetic results you can follow the routes they took and use those matches to guide your searches for paper records and documentation. You are welcome to download this map. This is from a 1751 map that is in the public domain. (See Library of Congress website of map free maps, newspapers and records – all online and easily and freely accessible.) Although we know maps must be tweaked and re-tweaked, we must have a public domain map to work from and this is a great place to start.
Kusadasi, Türkiye brings tourists in many ways, for many reasons. We took a van and enjoyed great views, our cousin came on a cruise ship and then took a bus, and we all visited many of the same places - House of The Virgin Mary, Ephesus Ancient City and Ephesus Selcuk Museum, Rug Weaving and all were so wonderful to visit and experience. But Liberty Resort was so wonderful that with each outing we planned, we felt sad to leave the property that offered so many wonderful things for us to do and enjoy.
Beginning on page 23 of Wilma Dykeman's book The French Broad: In 1791 a scarcely documented flood occurred in the whole area, which Davy Crockett, over on the Nolichucky (river), described as "the second coming of Noah's Fresh." From that date on, floods became more... Decades later, Paw and family would take the train to Dayton, Tenn., and then the family took them in a wagon and all would have the picnic reunions riverside. Many more decades later he described to me the sun setting into the treetops down the river and I fell in love with the mighty rivers that flow through the mystical mountains.
Denizli, Türkiye - Hierapolis - Pamukkale Travertines, Karahayit Springs, Ladocia fabulous days of more hot springs!
Türkiye ~ Anatolian Masterpiece in a dozen blogs. This is the first with an overall look at the trip. Each place will get its own blog and as they are written, links will be added here and you can click through. Follow us for DNA for Travel for DNA.
I add to and do not intend to remove - we have supported local businesses for many years now. I add them as anyone lets us know who needs a vote of recognition in our Southern Maryland home. My page is FREE to all who are listed here and to all who read. If you … Continue reading 2024 Support Your Local Businesses and Farms!
No one will ever convince me that hot springs are not "out of this world." My daddy and his sister Aunt Anne and her hubby Uncle Jim all loved and knew where the hot and warm springs were located. I have carried this love into my old age and my hubby, Dai, and I have … Continue reading Taking The Waters ~ Mineral Hot Springs Of Planet Earth
And laziness begat disregard for the truth. Add anyone. Oh it "must" be them. No one can prove it wrong. The dilemma of copying trees. Genealogy is hard work. All research is hard work. Multiple sources are needed for an assertion of any event - birth, marriage, death, date of founding, name, full name, name … Continue reading Its embarrassing, and it illustrates how the ancestral trees can be worthless, no matter what database.
The David Lewis of Charlottesville Family and his father and family John Lewis of Hanover and Wales and brother Abraham of Hanover and Pennsylvania.
The white tail deer pelt was there in Miss June's shop. Her son-in-law said all the money for the pelt would go to Miss June. The pelt has the mark where the bullet entered its side. The meat was eaten. It was shot for the food, not for the pelt or the lamp stand. The handiwork needed buyers.
Wonderful history to be found online via fun websites, newspapers, historical photographs and homespun memories. Homespun by my Dai for this memory to honor the Queen. In 1959, Dai was in the Stoney Creek Cubs and his group were part of the honor guard when Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Stoney Creek Battlefield … Continue reading One stop for the Queen in her 1959 visit to Canada – The Stoney Creek Battlefield Monument
The applications are easy to order and inexpensive (Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request link below) as records go, and for me I had hoped for clues also to find anything on my grandfather's father. But the applications are a document that will have the precious signature of the applicant - priceless!
- A Herstory Guest - I hope my readers will help me welcome our guest blogger, one of my Knight cousins, Charlotte. Her trees and work can be found on ancestry.com and familysearch.org, all the usual places, but with a very special and not so usual story of her Knight ancestry. She has been a … Continue reading Here’s Why We Test y – The Thomas Knight, Rockingham family comes into focus.
I would love to hear David Attenborough describe humans during a pandemic, some railing against authority, others hiding under the bed. So many failing to rise to the occasion and I do put this down to either what they do not know, or simply acting out for attention because a pandemic is a perfect setting … Continue reading Starved For Knowledge, Wooden Words
Wording is so delicate to express these thoughts about how the world's people see others, and how we see ourselves. I read once a story which called it the "Science of Beauty." People often gravitate to beauty and shun uncomeliness, whether we are aware of it or not. What is the opposite of beauty and … Continue reading The Stigma of Uncomeliness
y-DNA. What is it? Who has heard of it? All the excitement about admixture aka ethnicity in at-DNA testing and matching trees took some of the focus away from the original DNA-for-genealogy testing and my own favorite test: -- y-DNA. What is your y-DNA, if you are a man? (Only men carry y-DNA.) Is it … Continue reading y-DNA. No, it does not have admixture, but it does have thousands of years of human ancestry.
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All the companies I use for DNA testing have links to download your DNA raw data. Family Tree DNA, 23andMe, AncestryDNA, and others all have a click here and easily download a copy for your records, for fun to read and look at, for being able to upload to other sites that accept DNA from … Continue reading DNA Downloads, of course you want copies of yourself!
All my pages have Google translate and you can read the work in any language they offer. The link is on the top right on most desktop systems and at the bottom of the page on most mobile devices. I got my first computer in 1983. I got unlimited internet first in 1998 and I … Continue reading Covida Vita Vaxi Nation
I feel so sad that we could not have all had the message to wear masks from the beginning. Now it is wear two masks. Might as well have been throwing people into the volcano to fight the virus. Had United States health care professionals told people to wear masks from the start, as they … Continue reading May they rest in peace and their memory be a blessing – Covid
Look around where you live and find your local businesses. In the midst of this pandemic this is such a great idea! Share information about them with the community via Facebook pages and any social media. Let's help our local small businesses - now more than ever. Here is just one buy local page for … Continue reading 2022 – 2023 Buy Local, Support Your Neighbor Businesses and Farms ~ And there are a bunch of us small, and not so small local folks to support!
This is going to be a long haul, this virus. Just over three months into it and already I am reduced to cursing on Facebook. The virus has me by the girl globes. I work DNA for genealogy and anthropology - who cares? We all want to know what this RNA sequence means to us. … Continue reading After I get my vaccine… 1st I want to go to Italy & hear Maurizio Marchini sing Nessun Dorma, from Puccini’s Turandot
World wide virus tracking and links below. Page updating with resource links (below find resources links to info in many languages & diary by date with virtual things to do) [NO medical] See previous blogs on the virus in contents. This page has GOOGLE TRANSLATE to help all people read in the languages of their … Continue reading Coronavirus Diary ~ A list of helps & free information links for resources in multiple languages – updating regularly
DNA-for-genealogy, along with family history and herstory, became the focus of my research. And I came to realize we are all made up of multiple people. Even folks in remote places, whose ancestors have long been all in one place, turn out to be an intricate mixture of a few or many peoples. All of … Continue reading DNA for genealogy tourism ~ very personal pilgrimages. Croatia and other wonders!
Just because we have our "paper" well documented, does not mean we have our ancestors. DNA-for-genealogy is teaching us that many lines in even the most respectable families have had one or more "non-paternity events" (mis-attributed parentage) some time in the past. DNA testing might disprove some of our most cherished ancestral lines, but the … Continue reading OK, The DNA does not match and now you have lost 1/8th (or more) of your ancestry. ~ How To!
Science is supposed to be exact. Proving something with science is lauded as the 'only way to fly.' If something cannot be scientifically proven, then the scientists pooh-pooh all findings. But time after time after time, using DNA for anthropology and genealogy, we come across new or updated information that changes all our results and … Continue reading Neanderthal Ancestry – Of Course Everyone Has Some – (almost) All Peoples Have Some
Update for April 2020. With the COVID-19 Pandemic, it is more important than ever to remember our small and local businesses. Being an old hack from the woder world, we would go to places armed with face coverings, gloves and daily medications to take for Malaria. Those are other "war stories" for another day. But … Continue reading APRIL 2020 update. Small Business Saturday ~ And there are a bunch of us small, and not so small anymore, businesses to support!
Horacio Alger was wrong; all people(s) cannot get ahead. The Protestant work ethic was wrong; there are not jobs for all the people(s) of the earth who need a job. And for those who cannot work in today's world, there is not even much pity, certainly little quality of life. But the propaganda of the … Continue reading The DNA of Capitalism ~ Sales – begging door to door for the rich people.
...and we need the food to be fresh. Living meat, fowl and fish, vegetables and fruits, or foods prepared to stay "fresh" longer; humans need these to survive. We live in the countryside now, near wildlife and farms - all things being born, living and dying, and in between. All this life sustains life for something … Continue reading Being DNA ~ We come from it, we eat it, we secrete it and then some other DNA eats that too.
Do this in color printing only. You just cannot do it in black from your printer. I don't know anyone who could. I also suggest making many blank copies and using a pencil and being prepared to erase and correct. I check mine multiple times and often have a second person check behind me for … Continue reading X-DNA, Its A Girl Thing ~ And we included the boys – somewhat.
The British newspaper archives are just as wonderful as the American archives are and just as wonderful as the Canadian newspaper archives USED to be - that is past tense for Canada, as in no more. Cherie Lynn's Herstory T. K. Clay, Thomas Kent Clay born 1797 - 1862, manufactured steel nib pens throughout his … Continue reading T. K. Clay, Manufacturer Of London. Steel Nib Writing Pens: The Raven, The Flexor Victoria…
Gaetano Brandi 1728 - 1829 Gaetano's death record states he was 101 years old when he died and was buried at St. Pancras, the 28th of May in 1829. We know little about him before he married Rebecca Dando in London 1790. But a couple of newspaper mentions let us know he was playing music, … Continue reading Gaetano Brandi, The Man of Feeling, or the Gentleman’s Musical Repository ~ Music of the 18th century and beyond.
I will claim a cousin anyway. What can one do with their haplogroup? I am H10a1. You can go to several websites to look for your haplogroup in the skeletons of ancient people who have been sequenced! I am H10a1 and my mother's father was an R1a haplogroup, which is loosely associated with coming from … Continue reading What can one do with their haplogroup(s)? A Latvian Cousin
Geeze Loueezz. Update coming. The story of the lost newspaper archives' plots thicken. More information has been sent about where the dear Pages of the Past has been relegated to and still not a word about CH 1844 😦 I shudder as a genealogist to think what I would not know about our Toronto … Continue reading Newspapers, My First Love For Research ~ R.I.P. The Toronto Star’s Pages Of The Past, At least for most of the world
Family Tree DNA announced a new dashboard! Love all things new. Why not? I did not read the announcement to see why they made the changes -- whether to create new page formats for smart phones and tablets, or to add new and more page links, or a combination of all the above. All this … Continue reading ftDNA Has A New Dashboard ~ Its Great! Keep The Bifocals Handy!
We are all excited to match up with our genetic cousins at the several DNA-for-genealogy-and-other-stuff companies. There are many different features at each company, but few that explain the rules of the road or help us to understand the street signs. We get exactly half of our DNA from each of our parents, but beyond … Continue reading Genetic Ancestors? Do What? We Only Get Readable DNA From Some Ancestors 😦 ~ But there is a way to ‘see’ lots more!
DNA for genealogy or anthropology is not just about finding the ancestors, their information and rellies - it is about going to visit people and places from the cemetery down the street to the archives in any country in the world or the Ice-Age art of the caves of southern France and northern Spain. I … Continue reading Ice-Age Ancestors Tour ~ And The Winners Are… Google – Ring – Jif – Izod – Travelon & Hotel Palacio de Trasvilla
I am the person who was writing that we are stardust - years and years ago. I am the person who was writing about my/our ancestors - Neanderthals - who are just other humans and much better looking than portrayed. I can vouch for that - my memory is clear. So if we are all … Continue reading Nebula. (Google) …in astronomy: a cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter. Or, A Reunion of Stardusts. Or, A DNA Company That Nicked My Name
On aging. Being treated like an old cow is taking some getting used to. The thoughts, notes and links vary from ole cow, to older cows to the oldest known cow - with rednecks and without; cash cows, G-d cows, being cowed and cowing, And the Old Norse - Kuga - meaning "to … Continue reading Die At Home, Cover The Mirrors, Raise The Amulet ~ and be sure to get a cheek swab and name a beneficiary.
Faith has many faces and places and it is important - to some - including me to help - no matter what faith with or without hope.
We met someone who was despondent over these tragedies between Israel and Palestine - just as I am, we are. I had wished to share with him ... yes, - there certainly is a war - yes ...
Three great religions and they all belong. The y-DNA of these men's father's father's father's etc. etc. all match each other. The war(s) is brother against brother.
No long story short, just an excerpt of a moment in time. I went to a women's center for help. I was a long way from "home". Between accents and trauma, it was almost like I spoke a different language and listened with limitations. Someone spoke to me, I answered: "Huh?" I wasn't being disrespectful … Continue reading Huh?
Cherie Lynn's Herstory 