Ancestry

#3: Quicksheet Citing Ancestry.com Databases & Images

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:14:36 GMT

Source: www.amazon.com --- Sunday, May 19, 2013
Quicksheet Citing Ancestry.com Databases & Images Elizabeth Shown Mills (Author) (26) Buy new: $8.95 14 used & new from $8.95 (Visit the Best Sellers in Genealogy list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) ...

The Geography of Recent Genetic Ancestry across Europe.

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:43:09 GMT

Source: barf.jcowboy.org --- Saturday, May 18, 2013
Publication Date: 2013 May PMID: 23667324 Authors: Ralph, P. - Coop, G. Journal: PLoS Biol The recent genealogical history of human populations is a complex mosaic formed by individual migration, large-scale population movements, and other demographic events. Population genomics datasets can provide a window into this recent history, as rare traces of recent shared genetic Ancestry are detectable due to long segments of shared genomic material. We make use of genomic data for 2,257 Europeans (in the Population Reference Sample [POPRES] dataset) to conduct one of the first surveys of recent genealogical Ancestry over the past 3,000 years at a continental scale. We detected 1.9 million shared long genomic segments, and used the lengths of these to infer the distribution of shared ancestors across time and geography. We find that a pair of modern Europeans living in neighboring populations share around 2-12 genetic common ancestors from the last 1,500 years, and upwards of 100 genetic ancestors from the previous 1,000 years. These numbers drop off exponentially with geographic distance, but since these genetic ancestors are a tiny fraction of common genealogical ancestors, individuals from opposite ends of Europe are still expected to share millions of common genealogical ancestors over the last 1,000 years. There is also substantial regional variation in the number of shared genetic ancestors. For example, there are especially high numb ...

"Calling race a “social construct” does not mean that the biological ancestry — and specifically West..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:17:45 GMT

Source: agirlcalledchris.tumblr.com --- Saturday, May 18, 2013
“Calling race a “social construct” does not mean that the biological Ancestry — and specifically West African Ancestry — of African Americans is mythical. It also doesn’t mean that my Ancestry has no actual implications. (See the map of sickle-cell density above.) And in the future, it may mean even more. Ancestry — where my great-great-great-great grandparents are from — is a fact. What you call people with that particular Ancestry is not. It changes depending on where you are in the world, when you are there, and who has power.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates (via theatlantic ) ...

Conference Brings Together Women Writers of African Ancestry

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:28:22 GMT

Source: globalvoicesonline.org --- Saturday, May 18, 2013
Yari Yari Ntoaso is an international conference on literature by women of African Ancestry. You can follow in on Twitter using #YariYari hashtag or on Kinna Reads blog. Written by Ndesanjo Macha · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper ...