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• My Family Tree

  
  Authspot — Authority: 561
  My family tree My family tree is full and lush And has become diverse over hundreds of years. The Maternal roots were playing Bagpipes, While the paternal side Were still throwing spears. The trunk is made up of that grand he and she That met and wed and begot me. The he of the trunk was strict and stern And ...
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• Genealogy News Corral: December 14 to 18

  
  Genealogy Insider — Authority: 492
  Hello, everyone. Here are some quick updateson genealogy news this week: A New Mexico State University doctoral student is doing a study on cultural identityas explore through genealogy, and she’s looking for genealogists to participate. Seethe announcement on GeneaBloggers for details on how to participate . ...
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• Getting to Work

  
  Ancestry Magazine — Authority: 486
  Not everybody gets their 15 minutes of fame. Particularly not our working-class ancestors. But in this issue of Ancestry magazine, they do. We’re taking a deeper look at the ancestors who didn’t make it onto the society pages, whose obituaries tended to be short and to the point. These are the people who forged ...
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• Treasure Chest Thursday - World War I Draft Registration

  
  Genea-Musings — Authority: 591
  Its Treasure Chest Thursday, where we display some of the family treasures that were in the boxes and albums handed down from our parents, or the treasures found in digital format from our family history research. Here is a World War I Draft Reghistration card for my grandfather, Frederick Walton Seaver of ...
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• Ancestry.coms New Database Browse Features

  
  Genea-Musings — Authority: 591
  What do you do when you cannot find your target person or family in the US Census Records? You know, after you have used all of the name variations you can think of, used wild cards, used location, birth place and birth year (with a year range), spouses name, first name only, no name, etc. I dont know about you, but ...
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• New comprehensive study on continental ancestry of Argentineans (Corach et al. 2010)

  
  Dienekes' Anthropology Blog — Authority: 124
  An interesting find from the study: Whereas 96% of the individuals with European surnames carried European Y-chromosomes, 50% of the samples from individuals with Amerindian surnames had European Y chromosomes. The combined use of Y-chromosome, mtDNA, and autosomal markers in a sample gives us a rare opportunity to ...
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• Ancestry: The UK-Wales death index

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 526
  Ancestry.co.uk posted a very low key release of an important dataset, according to our good friend Laurence Harris, "our man" in London. He reported that theres now a full name searchable death index for all deaths in England and Wales for 1916-2005. Instead of having to search for a name visually on multiple images ...
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• Human embryonic stem cell lines lack genetic diversity

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, Dec 17 (ANI): A new study has found that the most widely used human embryonic stem cell lines lack genetic diversity.According to University of Michigan research team, the finding raises social justice questions that must be addressed to ensure that all sectors of society benefit from stem cell advances.The ...
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• ANCESTRY.COM: President Obama and Warren Buffett are Related

  
  Everything Warren Buffett — Authority: 137
  Leading Family History Web Site Discovers Family Connection between Two of the World’s Most Influential Men PROVO, UTAH – Dec. 15, 2009 – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online resource for family history, confirmed today that President Barack Obama and billionaire financial investor Warren ...
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• Question?

  
  PowWows.com Gathering - Forums for Native American Pow Wows — Authority: 152
  How do I find out my ancestors in the Lumbee tribe?
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• Mundia.com on Facebook

  
  Genea-Musings — Authority: 591
  Mundia .com has a fan page and an application on Facebook . Here is the Mundia .com page on Facebook : When I clicked on the "Info" tab, I found: There is the Facebook application link - its http://apps.facebook.com/mundia-family-tree/ . When I clicked on it, I saw my Mundia "home page" ...
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• More Info about Mundia.com

  
  Genea-Musings — Authority: 591
  After my two posts ( here and here ) about www.Mundia.com , Anastasia Tyler of Ancestry.com kindly posted this comment on the second post: "Hi Randy, "Mundia.com is a new international website, currently in Beta, dedicated to helping people around the world participate in family history. The Mundia website ...
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• “What you want, Ancestry.com’s got it” – Part 1

  
  Ancestry.com Blog — Authority: 458
  Hello… My name is Eric Horne and I’ve just joined the U.S. Content team as the Product Manager.  It seems only proper to introduce myself as I’ll continue to update you on the world of United States content here at Ancestry.com.  I’ve been with Ancestry.com since 2004; I began my career here in our Member ...
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• Family Stories

  
  Outdoor Odyssey — Authority: 122
  Besides blogging, I have spent time researching my ancestors and particularly intriguing, was why my 2G Grandfather, John Bryan, sometime prior to 1847, changed his surname from Bryant to Bryan.  Having drawn to a dead end trying to trace his forebearers I stumbled onto an old Bryan, family tree, then researching ...
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• Potential therapeutic targets for lung diseases discovered

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, December 14 (ANI): Scientists have found five genetic variants that are linked to the health of the human lung. A total of 96 scientists from 63 centres in Europe and Australia have been successful in shedding new light on the molecular basis of lung diseases.The significance of the finding lies in the hope it ...
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• Family Trees on Mundia.com

  
  Genea-Musings — Authority: 591
  I posted A First Look at Mundia.com yesterday, which was from the perspective of any researcher that stumbled across the site - a seeker, rather than someone with a family tree on Ancestry.com. Mundia.com accesses the Member Trees on Ancestry.com, but shows a "face" different from the typical Ancestry.com home ...
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• A First Look at Mundia.com

  
  Genea-Musings — Authority: 591
  A little bird (named Tamura Jones) tweeted at about 11 a.m. PST today: " TamuraJones : #genealogy I feel like posting another scoop :-)" and then " TamuraJones : #genealogy #news First Look at Mundia: Ancestry.coms social genealogy application for FaceBook http://bit.ly/mundia " I missed it the first ...
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• Genealogy News Corral December 7-11

  
  Genealogy Insider — Authority: 492
  Dianetook a well-deserved day off today—but not before completing this weeks roundup ofnews. Im posting it here in her absence: The Missouri Historical Society recently updated its searchable Genealogyand Local History Index with information from St. Louis-area graduation programs,the Anheuser-Busch employee ...
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• Mapping Human Genetic Diversity in Asia

  
  Dienekes' Anthropology Blog — Authority: 124
  From the press release : Several genome-wide studies of human genetic diversity have been conducted on European populations. Now, for the first time, these studies have been extended to 73 Southeast Asian (SEA) and East Asian (EA) populations. In a paper titled, "Mapping Human Genetic Diversity in Asia," ...
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• The Nebraska State Censuses - 1860 to 1885

  
  Genea-Musings — Authority: 591
  Ancestry.com announced the release of the Nebraska State Census records for 1860 to 1885 today - see Crista Cowans blog post Ancestry World Archives Project Releases Nebraska State Census, 1860-1885 . I love it when new databases that contain records of my ancestors and research targets come online. The only ...
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