Scientists believe that studying the humble zebrafish may have helped solve the mystery of human skin colour.
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In the BBC news today, scientists have discovered that this wonderful island of ours (no, no, not the Seychelles) was peopled some 200,000 earlier than previously thought. It brought a smile to my face when I thought that if it were possible to trace your family to the earlier days, you would now be facing another long haul!
Apparently, the first recorded death by the Birmingham (that is the original Birmingham in the UK, OK?) Registry office was a prostitute whose death was notified by the master of the workhouse.
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Over at The Loom, there is an interesting article ‘Tree or Trellis’ that takes another look at the ‘out of Africa’ theory for man’s history. Using DNA evidence the newer theory is that instead of one great migration, there were about three and at least once, there was movement back towards Africa.
I haven’t done much work on the DyNAstyDb in the past few months apart from the work to generate the Ellis Families of West Riding’s pages. In the back of my mind though I am trying to solve the issues that are coming up as I get to the black hole years.
Calling on all Americans to “know their family history,” U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., today unveiled an updated version of a computerized tool designed to help families gather their health information
If you do not want to shake any family skeletons out of the cupboard, don’t do genealogy and certainly do not do genetic genealogy.
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This news story on the BBC site is one that I am afraid of. Depite the fact that yDNA cannot be used to identify individuals, it is storieds like this that will make it difficult to convince people to have their DNA tested for the WRYEllis yDNA study.
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Just read this post which brings me to one of the biggest gripes I have about Crown copyright here in England.
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Haven’t posted for a couple of days, been busy with other things really. Where I have had the chance I have been working on the West Riding Yorkshire Family pages.
