I just listened to a really interesting Podcast from Scientific America. It was about the Neanderthals. It was fascinating to me. I guess we have learned so much about the people in the last few years do to our ability to sequence their genes which was done just last year. We now know that the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Genealogy
To be or not to be
Just read another interesting article on personal genetics (here). I think we will learn so much in this field over the next twenty years. Some of it may be really surprising. Readers of my blog will know that I have been very active in doing my family history (Geneology). I have just started to add … Continue reading
Priluki to San Francisco
My great grandmother’s family lived in a small town in the Ukraine called Priluki for a very long time. I was able to trace my family back to about 1760 but they could have been there for hundreds of year before. My great great grandfather was a butcher. He was born in 1830. He died … Continue reading
The internet is a miracle maker
How my family was reunited after more than a hundred years. Continue reading
2008: The year of DNA
Genealogy I have just sent my DNA in to Ancerstry.com. I am investigating my parental linage via the Y chromosome and my maternal linage via the mitochondrial DNA. For those that do not know, the Y chromosome is past from father to son. For instance, my father, I, my sons and their sons all have … Continue reading
Happy Y-Chromosome Day
I just meet with my father, my two sons and my three grandsons (seven copies of the same Y-Chromosome). I know of and other four copies (my father’s brother’s, a second cousin, a nephew and grand nephew). Of course there must be more copies but I do not know who possesses them. The copies that … Continue reading
Thank for the memories
I am the family historian. Over the last five years I have been pretty much able to put together the story of my family and in some case I am able to cover nine generations from a time before declaration of independence to the birth of my grandchildren. And I have collected photographs that go … Continue reading
The 1849 Gold Rush and the Internet Bubble
Mike Hirshland sent me a story on Valley Wag about Industry Standard pre burst (that is post bubble). It is interesting and you can read it here. It caused me to reflect on another time in this history of the bay area, the 1949 Gold Rush. Here can read about that here if you do … Continue reading
We all die twice
We all die twice. The first death is the one we all know. You stop. The lights go out. They pack you up and/or wrap you up and unless you are Anna Nicole Smith, your body is disposed of in a few days (I am not going to get into whether we have a soul, … Continue reading