This is a continuation of the story about Denisovans. The question is, why would today’s humans have any Neanderthal DNA in their genes? Well, an online article by National Geographic explains more about the Neanderthal in the DNA query…and talks a little about Denisovans as well. But NPR also has […]
Well, DNA is unravelling some odd information. I know some DNA tests indicate a small percentage of Neanderthal in modern people. What? Neanderthal? Are you kidding? Maybe that’s why I refuse to be vegetarian…I just love meat! ha ha! That’s what I said in an email to my sister, who asked about […]
Dead Fred is a photo website for genealogy. Photos can be posted, saved, searched. It’s especially good for the “Mystery” photo section. You can post a photo as a Mystery if you do not know who it is, and if someone can identify the person in the photo, you get […]
Stanislaus Rosemarynoski is my great grandfather. He was born in Poland. Now, Poland did not exist as a country when he came to America. Germany had invaded from one side and Russia invaded from the other. So various papers list his home country as Russia, with him speaking Polish. Basically, […]
This week, Roots Tech is happening in Salt Lake City. Roots Tech started out, I believe, as primarily a technology convention all about genealogy and research. It has expanded and now does non-technology things also. I am not able to attend this year, but they have live streaming video sessions […]
This is an update to a previous post. I searched the online records for Vital Records for Eureka, in fact all of Greenwood County, Kansas. Birth Registrations and Marriage Records are in a ledger style book that was microfilmed and now digitized. Mary Elizabeth Elliott was reportedly born in 1909 […]
My great grandmother was Mary Elizabeth Elliott. A research goal is to discover and identify her father. She was born in 1909, and the State of Kansas did not require Birth Certificates until 1911. So I look at other documents for clues and piece them together. Mary Elizabeth Elliott was […]
My 2nd great grandfather, Allen B. Cross, was born in Pennsylvania and served in the Civil War. He was in Company D of the 148th Infantry of the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. On the internet, I connected with a distant cousin. Allen’s father was Andrew Cross, and I am descended from […]
My great grandmother, Rose Bruderik Rosemarynoski, sailed across the Atlantic aboard this ship. I previously wrote a post on this blog about her passenger list, with her name on it. She sailed to America in 1907. Some info taken from Wikipedia SS Potsdam Renamed SS Stockholm Later SS Solglimt and […]
If anyone has any Ray ancestors from Central Kentucky, who migrated there from Maryland, I encourage you to locate and review this fabulous book. The Ray Book: A Family of Central Kentucky, 1705-1993 by Ann Tyson Sipes, Louisville, Kentucky: Historical Research Publishers, 1993. It is a lengthy book, about 1,200 pages […]