This story is important to read "...The famed American anthropologist Daniel Garrison Brinton, for example, described the Celts in 1890 as having conspicuous mental traits: “turbulent, boastful, alert, courageous, but deficient in caution, persistence and self-control, they never have succeeded in forming an independent state, and are a dangerous element in the body politic of … Continue reading Oh dear, DNA and facing the old story. Bias In Research
Month: August 2018
African American, African and Anything DNA and Genealogy ~ Don’t Ask Me, I am not an expert – but I am a believer.
But I will implode if I hear one more person talk about what African Americans cannot find. I want to hear about and relish in and celebrate what we can find and we are going to find more and more and more especially now that folks are working on the DNA for genealogy and anthropology. … Continue reading African American, African and Anything DNA and Genealogy ~ Don’t Ask Me, I am not an expert – but I am a believer.
Are you a lick away from Granny’s DNA? Forensic DNA For Genealogy ~ Artifact Testing
Update: September 2022: I have no affiliation with the company To The Letter. I follow them from the day they announced their plans to sequence artifact DNA - delightful!!! During the pandemic, they like all went through difficult times for their service. I follow them via their news emails and on Facebook. If you are … Continue reading Are you a lick away from Granny’s DNA? Forensic DNA For Genealogy ~ Artifact Testing
Native Americans, First Nations, the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the only Americans ~ The rest of us need to figure out where and who we are from. Artifacts! Forensic Testing!
UPDATE 2019 The Virginia Tribes are recognized and now we have this! Bring Pocahontas Home To Virginia! https://www.facebook.com/MinnieHaHaEducationalTradingPost/photos/a.696960357090009/2503177853134908/?type=3&theater Join the project today: https://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=FrenchBroadRiverFamilies Europeans, brown and white, Asians and Africans, yellow and black, living in America, all must figure out where they are from, and all are quite arrogant to be telling any indigenous peoples … Continue reading Native Americans, First Nations, the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the only Americans ~ The rest of us need to figure out where and who we are from. Artifacts! Forensic Testing!
STRs, SNPs, Alleles, Locus that become lots of little Loci. It is like Chocolate is bad for GERD. Who Cares?
GRIP cares and it matters to get a grip on understanding the basic and advanced lingo and techniques of genetic genealogy and there are few places to get the instruction. The ins, outs and alls of why these gene markers and their amounts mean so much to us in search of genetic family history is … Continue reading STRs, SNPs, Alleles, Locus that become lots of little Loci. It is like Chocolate is bad for GERD. Who Cares?
Cherie Lynn's Herstory 