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How the hell do you read mtDNA Hapogroup Matches? H11a is as far as I can get...
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Found this in some notes I had, it always sets me straight so I thought I'd share:
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My aunt found a letter from my Great-Great-Great-Grandfather to his father in Lewisburg, VA from St. Louis, MO in 1840 intending to go to "the Oregon Country to seek out a future".
Crazy.
Obviously he didn't end up going, but that's wild to think how my life would be different if he did.
Crazy.
Obviously he didn't end up going, but that's wild to think how my life would be different if he did.
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Amazing that correspondence that old would survive.My aunt found a letter from my Great-Great-Great-Grandfather to his father in Lewisburg, VA from St. Louis, MO in 1840 intending to go to "the Oregon Country to seek out a future".
Crazy.
Obviously he didn't end up going, but that's wild to think how my life would be different if he did.
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Time for a wild story, made possible by tax time and the internet.
The wife and I have put off completing our taxes, mainly due to a lack of opportunity and desire, mostly the latter.
We have a firebox where valuables, including social security cards, birth certificates, my DD-214, and other items are held. In this collection is a family Bible, in German. While sorting through the papers I decided to look through the Bible and came across a Telegram from 1915 detailing the cost of transporting the body of a "J.J. Glaser", who had committed suicide in Spokane, Washington in December of that year.
Thanks to the internet, in the matter of an hour or so through the help of other family members we were able to find not only who exactly this "Jake Glaser" was (my Great-Great Uncle), and not only the Washington State Board of Health's report of his death, but a newspaper article recording the event.
And to think 20 years ago to find this out would have required, at the least, several phone calls, if not an actual site visit and the physical reading of microfiche.
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The wife and I have put off completing our taxes, mainly due to a lack of opportunity and desire, mostly the latter.
We have a firebox where valuables, including social security cards, birth certificates, my DD-214, and other items are held. In this collection is a family Bible, in German. While sorting through the papers I decided to look through the Bible and came across a Telegram from 1915 detailing the cost of transporting the body of a "J.J. Glaser", who had committed suicide in Spokane, Washington in December of that year.
Thanks to the internet, in the matter of an hour or so through the help of other family members we were able to find not only who exactly this "Jake Glaser" was (my Great-Great Uncle), and not only the Washington State Board of Health's report of his death, but a newspaper article recording the event.
And to think 20 years ago to find this out would have required, at the least, several phone calls, if not an actual site visit and the physical reading of microfiche.
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Very cool. Is that your previously mentioned Great-Great-Great-Grandfather's son? He took the trip west that his father didn't?
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Same family, different son.
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Chas. Glaser? Pronounced like Chaz?
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Charles
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Chase?
Just saw your edit... were they just strapped for room? Just seemed like an odd place for an abbreviation.
Just saw your edit... were they just strapped for room? Just seemed like an odd place for an abbreviation.
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Yeah, not sure why, but it was common to abbreviate Charles to Chas. in those days. Same with Joseph to Jos.
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Hmm. Til.
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You'll see Charleston, WV abbreviated similarly as Chas., WVa.
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RIP JJ
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Very cool Freddy. My mother's cousin has been in contact with a distant relative in Germany and they've been able to pull up tons of info on this particular branch of our family. I now have a nice list of last names to search out if we ever visit Germany in need of cheap lodging.
This same cousin, while researching another branch of the family, found out one of the relatives died when a large piece of slate crushed him to death. He had a 1 year old at the time, his only child.
This same cousin, while researching another branch of the family, found out one of the relatives died when a large piece of slate crushed him to death. He had a 1 year old at the time, his only child.
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Yeah, this branch (my paternal grandfather's family) was never really checked into because they kind of didn't want to be found.
I heard from my aunt that her grandma (my great-grandma) didn't want anything to do with them to the point she forbade her kids from visiting their grandparents.
I get the feeling that there is some dark stuff back in there, tbh.
I heard from my aunt that her grandma (my great-grandma) didn't want anything to do with them to the point she forbade her kids from visiting their grandparents.
I get the feeling that there is some dark stuff back in there, tbh.
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Do you think the abbreviations arose from the cost of letters engraved in the headstone?Charles
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Bet it has something to do with that, or saving money on telegrams.
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I did the DNA test through Ancestry.com and my results were 81% Southern Italy, 12% Greek, and 7% Turkish. The Greek wasn't surprising since my Grandmother's last name is Greek, but all of my ancestors on her side that I could find were born in Italy. The Turkish was a surprise, but makes sense since Greece was pretty much part of Turkey from the end of the Byzantine Empire until the end of WWI.
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Found some more info on the above.
Evidently a bridge he worked on collapsed and killed a dozen a week after he died.
http://Historylink.org/File/7642
Evidently a bridge he worked on collapsed and killed a dozen a week after he died.
http://Historylink.org/File/7642
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My mom's paternal grandparents were both born in Italy and she did a DNA test (mostly to see where her family is in Italy) and is IRATE she is more Balkan than Italian
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Recently figured out that my Great-Great-Grandfather John A. Preston was married to the daughter of John J. Davis, whose son (my Great-Great Grandmother's brother, my Great-Great-Great Uncle) was John W. Davis, the 1924 Democrat nominee for President.
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If it wasn't for that SOB Coolidge you could be the descendant of a President.
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My mother's cousin traced our family back to the 1100's in Scotland. I need to get a copy if that.
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