Sunday, August 18, 2013

Connecting with Ursula on the ancestral plane

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Some ancestors call out to me more than others. Of course, if I could time travel back to their eras, I would want to meet every single on...
Monday, August 5, 2013

Re-examining the records: Aleksandr and Józef

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Look, and look again. No matter how many times you've pored over some genealogical resource, whether it's a document, or a photogr...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

My grandfather Aleksandr and his half-brother Józef who was really his cousin

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My grandfathers' lives and relationships continue to surprise me. Almost exactly one year ago, I discovered that my paternal grandfath...
Friday, August 2, 2013

Belarus-Lida Region and Prokopowicz surname Family Tree DNA projects

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One benefit of testing with Family Tree DNA is that it hosts thousands of projects—7,620 at last count, devoted to surnames and geographic...
Monday, July 29, 2013

75% Eastern European DNA? Sounds about right to me

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I am 99.9% European. I would have guessed that, even if I had never spit into tiny vials for autosomal DNA analysis. Test results from 23...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

My grandparents' haplogroups: N1c1 & R1a1 Y-DNA; T2b & H27 mtDNA

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There is a lot to be said about all the DNA tests my family members and I have taken over the past three years. I am certain of this from a...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

Exactly how Polish is my DNA?

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My grandparents, and their parents before them, and their parents before them, all lived in Wilno. In their time, Wilno was one of the west...