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Digging up my roots!
Month: March 2012
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Genetic memory or hardwired preferences: Questions for the family historian
Genetic memory is explained as follows in Wikipedia: In psychology, genetic memory is a memory present at birth that exists in the absence of sensory experience, and is incorporated into the genome over long spans of time. It is based on the idea that common experiences of a species become incorporated into its genetic code,…
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Chronicling America chronicles the Stanwood family
Friday night I continued my search for the Stanwood surname on the Library of Congress’ web site, Chronicling America. What an awesome site! My great-great grandparents, Albert and Lavina (Bursley) Stanwood, appeared several times in the Princeton Journal – typically when visiting their daughter Georgianna (Stanwood) Cravens. Here are some of my finds:
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Don’t throw the baby (or the paper) out with the bath water….
I really enjoy finding stuff. I really hate filing stuff. (I believe I’ve mentioned that a time or two…or ten…in previous posts, lol.) Hence, I’d made (the unfortunate) decision to go digital in my filing system a couple of years ago. Of course, I kept all of the documents I had currently, as well as…
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Two Thumbs Up – “Genealogist’s Handbook for New England Research”
I received my copy of the fifth edition of the Genealogist’s Handbook for New England Research today, and have to say I’m impressed! When I originally ordered the book last Fall, I wondered if this would mirror the Handybook for Genealogists (a wonderful resource), or would it offer new content. (Surprisingly, I’ve not ever seen the previous four…
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Ancestry.com autosomal DNA test – Part II
Family trees are full of mysteries. The one thing we can be sure that we know is that there is a lot that we DON’T know! 🙂 That’s a good reason to have a DNA test done. Hopefully it will help link us to others who DO know something about lines we are researching. Sometimes,…
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My (free) Ancestry.com DNA results – a comparison to FamilyTreeDNA
It seems like an eternity ago I received an email from Ancestry.com offering me a free autosomal DNA test. (Still don’t know why I was selected…were all Ancestry.com subscribers offered the free DNA testing or only their most neurotic users that spend most of their non-working, waking hours searching family history?) I immediately signed…
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