Your DNA Guide - the Book
Your DNA Guide - the Book

Author: Diahan Southard

Publisher:

Published: 2020-02-26

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9781734613902

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You don't have to learn everything about genetic genealogy before asking specific questions of your DNA! That's the premise of Diahan Southard's brand new book, Your DNA Guide - the Book, now available for pre-order at a special sale price. Your DNA Guide - the Book is like no other genetic genealogy book on the market. Instead of learning more-than-you-need-to-know in textbook style, you'll choose a specific DNA question to start exploring right away. You'll follow concrete step-by-step plans, learning important DNA concepts--in plain English--as you go. Do you want to learn who your 2X great grandmother is? Turn to page 23. Do you want to know how you are related to one of your DNA matches? Page 37. As you proceed, you check your progress and get new guidance based on your specific results at each stage. (Including troubleshooting, like when your matches just aren't responding or your great-grandparents turn out to be first cousins.) This powerful, hands-on approach is based on Diahan's 20 years of experience in the genetic genealogy industry and especially in the past five years, as she helps clients one-on-one make DNA discoveries. It became clear to her that while each client's situation may be unique, there are patterns in how you can find solutions that you can apply yourself. Your DNA Guide - the Book is for anyone who has taken a DNA test or may want to. It helps genealogists reconstruct family trees. It helps adoptees identify biological relatives. It can help you identify a specific DNA match. In short, it helps anyone explore what their DNA--and their DNA matches--can tell them about their origins.

The Tribal Imagination
The Tribal Imagination

Author: Robin Fox

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-03-08

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0674059018

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We began as savages, and savagery has served us well—it got us where we are. But how do our tribal impulses, still in place and in play, fit in the highly complex, civilized world we inhabit today? This question, raised by thinkers from Freud to Lévi-Strauss, is fully explored in this book by the acclaimed anthropologist Robin Fox. It takes up what he sees as the main—and urgent—task of evolutionary science: not so much to explain what we do, as to explain what we do at our peril. Ranging from incest and arranged marriage to poetry and myth to human rights and pop icons, Fox sets out to show how a variety of human behaviors reveal traces of their tribal roots, and how this evolutionary past limits our capacity for action. Among the questions he raises: How real is our notion of time? Is there a human “right” to vengeance? Are we democratic by nature? Are cultural studies and fascism cousins under the skin? Is evolutionary history coming to an end—or just getting more interesting? In his famously informative and entertaining fashion, drawing links from Volkswagens to Bartók to Woody Guthrie, from Swinburne to Seinfeld, Fox traces our ongoing struggle to maintain open societies in the face of profoundly tribal human needs—needs which, paradoxically, hold the key to our survival.

When Descendants Become Ancestors
When Descendants Become Ancestors

Author: David A. Kendall PhD

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2014-09-05

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1452520232

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An Excerpt from When Descendants Become Ancestors "Congratulationsyoure going to be an ancestor (someday). You cannot escape it. Nor can I. Nor can anyone else. Thats not necessarily a bad thing, depending on your beliefs about an afterlife, but each body ultimately ceases to exist. We all know that. From the moment of birth, each of us begins a journey that must ultimately conclude with our entrance into ancestry. As we research our own ancestors and mourn the lack of information available to us, we forget that we are the future ancestors of our descendants. And if we dont leave to them the kinds of information about our lives that we crave to know about our own forefathers, then we are merely perpetuating the problem." How often have you regretted your failure to engage the elder generations of your family for information about their lives and memories? How many times have you wanted just one more hour with a deceased relative who could answer that one burning question that you suddenly thought about, and that no one else can answer? Perhaps you remember a time when an older acquaintance wanted to share with you some stories about the good old days, but you couldnt be bothered. Most of us have had regrets like these, as will our descendantsunless we seek to record and preserve some stories for their use. Whether our stories are short and simple or long and complex matters not, but these stories will become part of their heritage and can certainly influence their lives. Though our contributions may not be recognized for decades, our lives matter to future generations and our stories should be told. The rest is up to each of us.

Family History Record Book
Family History Record Book

Author: Heritage Hunter

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-27

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9781905315321

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This Family History Record Book is an easy-to-use, usefully organised way to record the details of your ancestors as you progress your genealogy research. It provides generous, clear space for recording eight generations of your family - a whopping 255 individuals in total. Available in both paperback or hardback, this is the ideal way to store your family tree for the future. The book contains: a handy set of summary charts for all 8 generations lots of space to record up to 16 pieces of information about all ancestors going back to the 5x-great-grandparents, including dates and sources used a cousin calculator chart for working out family relationships a unique timeline showing the span of more than 100 types of records (for researchers of English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish family history)

In the Shadow of the Enemy
In the Shadow of the Enemy

Author: Ida Powell Dulany

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1572336587

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The Piedmont area of Loudoun and Fauquier Counties, Virginia, near the Maryland border, was hotly contested throughout the Civil War. The mistress of a slave-holding estate, Ida Powell Dulany took over control of the extensive family lands once her husband left to fight for the Confederacy. She struggled to manage slaves, maintain contact with her neighbors, and keep up her morale after her region was abandoned by the Confederate government soon after the beginning of hostilities.

Our Family Tree
Our Family Tree

Author:

Publisher: Poplar

Published: 2011-04-20

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0785826734

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A beautiful gift and keepsake album to record the genealogy and family history.

When Scotland Was Jewish
When Scotland Was Jewish

Author: Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-05-07

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0786455225

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The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.

River Out of Eden
River Out of Eden

Author: Richard Dawkins

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2008-08-04

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 0786724269

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How did the replication bomb we call ”life” begin and where in the world, or rather, in the universe, is it heading? Writing with characteristic wit and an ability to clarify complex phenomena (the New York Times described his style as ”the sort of science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius”), Richard Dawkins confronts this ancient mystery.

My Children's Children
My Children's Children

Author: Leslie Rice

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2022-01-18

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781662833885

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Three Christian teens living through the End Times, foretold in the ancient scriptures and the words of Christ, face tremendous trials as they learn how to "be faithful to the end." They endure uncertainty, fear, and loss, but discover their Creator in new ways in the midst of it, and come to know the living and present God. A cashless society. One world government. The mark of the Beast. These are all realities that Christians will have to face as they come to pass during the end times. But have you ever considered what you would do in that situation? Where would you go? Who could you trust? How would you survive? In this work, author Leslie Rice transports readers into this futuristic world, following a group of individuals as they grapple with their new reality as they are plunged into a global battle between good and evil. My Children's Children by Leslie Rice is a compelling novel which delves deep into the overarching conflict between God and Satan, heaven and hell, and discusses our place in the fight. Based on the biblical accounts of what the end times will hold, Leslie combines interesting characters with a hair-raising plot to depict the purposes of Satan to overthrow God and take His place, giving readers a greater understanding of what is really at stake, rather than the usual message of "ask Jesus into your heart and get your ticket to heaven." We all have a part to play, a decision to make about whose side we will stand on, who will have our allegiance, who we will die for, and with whom we will spend eternity. Inspired to write out of her great concern over the fleshly condition of many Christians' souls, Leslie writes about the hard times coming which the Western church is not prepared for, just as Israel before us was not prepared for the difficult circumstances it would endure. Now is the time to repent from our wicked ways and discipline ourselves in the Spirit of God. Church of true believers, get ready! He who is faithful to the end will be saved.