Thursday, December 23, 2010

Genographic Newsletter: Volume 5, Issue 4



 
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Volume 5, Issue 4
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The Baalbek ruins, Lebanon.
Inside the Project
Genographic Project scientists Wolfgang Haak (of the Ancient DNA Center in Adelaide) and Marc Habr (of the Middle East Center in Beirut) published scientific research papers using data from the Genographic Project.

Influences of history, geography, and religion on genetic structure: the Maronites in Lebanon

Ancient DNA Indicates Farmers, not Just Farming, Spread West
 
Lisa Matisoo-Smith discusses the Genographic Project results with various village members in Emirau.
From the Field
Lisa Matisoo-Smith, Genographic Project Investigator at the Oceania Center in Otago, New Zealand, recently returned from a week in the field in Emirau, Papua New Guinea. Having worked with the Emirau community for the past four years, Lisa has built strong relationships with local schools and community leaders. Read Lisa's stories from the field and learn about the Emirau community's interest in their history and heritage.
 
Did you know?
Now in its fifth year, the Genographic Legacy Fund has supported 53 projects, which span six continents and reflect over $1.4 million dollars in grants. This year's awards went to projects in Alaska, Ghana, India, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Namibia and Nigeria.
The Genographic Project was launched in 2005 initially as a five-year project; however, our research centers will continue their field work and analysis through 2011. We anticipate that publications from the analyses of the data will continue for several years into the future and Genographic Public Participation Kits will be continue to be available for members of the public to purchase.
You can explore the Arctic with Project Director Spencer Wells. He will be joining the National Geographic Expedition to Norway's Fjords and Arctic Svalbard. Learn more and secure your spot.

A public participant uses his daughter's help to swab and participate in the event at the Adelaide Central Market.
Genographic Public Swabbing Event Held in Adelaide, Australia
The University of Adelaide hosted a Genographic swabbing event at the Adelaide Central Market, inviting one hundred Adelaideans to swab for free on a first-come, first-served basis. Post Doc Wolfgang Haak and Principal Investigator Alan Cooper from Genographic's Ancient DNA research center based in Adelaide, combined the results to provide insight into each individual's deep ancestry and a snapshot of Adelaide's migratory history at a public lecture held at the university.

See photos from the event and learn about the results
 
Frequently Asked Question
Q: If I have already tested with the Genographic Project, should I still give my family members a Genographic Public Participation Kit?

A: Each Public Participation Kit tests either the maternal or paternal side of your DNA, following the bloodline down through the generations. If you have tested one side, you or a blood relative can still test the other side. Males possess both a Y chromosome (paternal) and mitochondrial (maternal) DNA, so they may choose to test either side with the Genographic Public Participation Kit (one test per kit). As females do not possess a Y chromosome, they can test only their maternal DNA but can discover more about their paternal lineage by asking a male blood relative to test instead. Learn more about Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA on our website.

See more Frequently Asked Questions.
 
Three generations celebrate their heritage with the Genographic Project.
Featured Migration Story
We Are Still Here!: A woman's story about her family's hidden history in World War II and how she, her daughter, and her granddaughter celebrate their heritage today with the Genographic Project.

We want to hear your personal migration story too. Tell us about what you learned about your deep ancestry from the Genographic Public Participation Kit. Has it changed the way you view yourself or others?

Submit your story.
 
Support the Project
Your tax-deductible donation can help us answer key questions about our shared deep ancestry and humanity's 60,000-year odyssey around the globe.
 
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Photographs courtesy Mark Thiessen (Genographic Public Participation Kit), Chafic Karam (Inside the Project), Glenn Summerhaye (From the Field), Bettina Cutler (Genographic Public Swabbing Event Held in Adelaide, Australia), Genographic Participant. (Featured Migration Story).

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Cell Phone (81) 1667-2480

"Haz tu Arbol Genealogico...El Arbol mas Hermoso de la Creacion"


Por medio de la historia familiar descubrimos el árbol más hermoso de la creación: nuestro árbol genealógico. Sus numerosas raíces se remontan a la historia y sus ramas se extienden a través de la eternidad. La historia familiar es la expresión extensiva del amor eterno; nace de la abnegación y provee la oportunidad de asegurarse para siempre una unidad familiar".
(Élder J. Richard Clarke, Liahona julio de 1989, pág.69)



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Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Join Us Online December 15th for FamilySearch's December 2010 Bloginar!

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Join us Online December 15th for FamilySearch's December 2010 Bloginar!

 

This free, informational bloginar will cover the latest FamilySearch news and include a demonstration of the November and December upgrades to the new beta search engine—all in preparation to launch the next generation FamilySearch.org. See below for participation/login details.

 

Who Should Attend? Any news writer, genealogy media professional, or blogger interested in the latest FamilySearch updates or current developments for their readers.

 

When:                Wednesday, December 15, 2010

                            Noon to 1:15 p.m. MST

Where:               Online

 

Agenda

 

12:00   Welcome. FamilySearch Bloginar Overview

12:05   New Online Collections

            Indexing Update

RootsTech 2011 Update

 

12:15   Next Generation FamilySearch.org (Beta.FamilySearch.org): Latest Tips and Tricks

November Upgrade(s)

                        - Catalog place search

             December Upgrades

                        - New search forms

                        - Date context fixes

                        - Other search results improvements

            Upcoming Changes (January/February)

                        - Filters

                        - Collection specific search

                        - Exact/close/partial controls

13:00     Questions and Answers

 

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Meeting Name: FamilySearch December 2010 Bloginar

When: 12/15/2010 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Give the Gift of Genographic and Give Back


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Migrating home for the holidays?
Pronghorn antelope make the biannual trek across northwestern Wyoming. Photo by Joe Riis from the Great Migrations: Official Companion Book. Click here to learn more and order your copy.
This holiday season, give friends and family a personal glimpse into the greatest migration ever taken using DNA. The cutting-edge science of National Geographic and IBM's Genographic Project is breaking through the "brick wall" of traditional genealogy, tracing the hidden ancient history of humanity.

Join over 370,000 participants and send in your DNA using a painless cheek swab. Interactive results can be accessed online with an anonymous code. This holiday season give back and discover your family's ancient migratory routes with the Genographic Public Participation Kit. Involve the entire family and span generations by sharing this experience. The project is not for profit and net proceeds from the sales of participation kits support ongoing global field research and tcultural and linguistic revitalization projects.
 
 

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Friday, November 19, 2010

Pilgrims and Indians in her family tree

Pilgrims and Indians in her family tree

J.L.G. Ferris via Library of Congress

This traditional depiction of the first Thanksgiving in 1621, created by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris in 1932, shows Pilgrims and Native Americans sitting down together for a meal.

Lindsy Stewart Cieslewicz, a stay-at-home mom and dance educator in Utah, has reason to be doubly thankful this Thanksgiving season: She just found out that she's a descendant of the Pilgrims as well as the Native Americans who attended the first Thanksgiving in 1621.

"It's been exciting for my little family to be involved in this," the 34-year-old told me. "It takes us back not only to historical figures, but also to the Wampanoag tribe. We don't look Indian by any means, but to feel that, you get a sense of how varied and rich your culture can be without your even knowing."

The detective work was done by GeneTree, a company that blends genetic testing with genealogical research to firm up the links to ancestors. GeneTree draws upon more than 110,000 sets of pedigrees and DNA records that have been collected over the past decade for the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation.


Cieslewicz vaguely remembered contributing her information (as well as a DNA sample) to the foundation's database about a decade ago, just as I did, but she didn't give it much thought until GeneTree decided to sift through the database looking for Thanksgiving-themed connections. Cieslewicz was one of 297 people in the database whose ancestry could be traced to William Bradford, who was governor of Plymouth Colony for the first Thanksgiving. But out of all those people, Cieslewicz was the only one who was also related to the Wampanoag.

GeneTree

Lindsy Stewart Cieslewicz, a dance educator living in Utah, traces her ancestry to Pilgrim leader William Bradford as well as to members of the Wampanoag tribe that shared the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims.

The pedigree laid out by GeneTree shows that Bradford was one of Cieslewicz's 10th-great-grandfathers, while her ninth-great-grandfather on a different line was a member of the Wampanoag tribe living during the era when Chief Massasoit worked out an alliance with the English. The exact identity of Cieslewicz's Indian forefather isn't known.

"There had been a family rumor passed down by my grandfather that we were related to Native Americans," Cieslewicz said. "My grandfather, who was an author and historian himself, never believed it. So that was a funny thing that we all laughed about, because my grandfather passed away exactly a year ago -- and he would have been really interested to hear that the family rumor was actually true."

How rare is it?
Statistical studies have shown that virtually everyone in the Western world is related to Charlemagne, who ruled over the Holy Roman Empire 1,200 years ago. But geneticist Scott Woodward, who's president of Utah-based GeneTree, says Cieslewicz's case is more unusual.

"Almost everybody can trace their lineages through one of these royal-type lines when we get 700 or 800 years into the past," he told me. "It's a little rare when we go back just 300 years, and it's more rare when you have to go through two of those lines."

Believe it or not, tracing Native American ancestry can be tougher than figuring out whether or not your ancestors came over on the Mayflower. "We know it's fairly rare, and one of the reasons we know that is because Native American records and the connections into that population are very rare," Woodward said. Even if the connection was known, it was often hidden -- in part because of the stigma that was once associated with being of "mixed blood."

Nowadays, however, having a little controversy in your family tree can add to the appeal of doing genealogy. For example, researchers recently determined that the descendants of the defendants in the Salem Witch Trials include actress Sarah Jessica Parker ... as well as Scott Woodward himself.

"When I found out that I really am connected to one of those accused witches, it made the story come alive for me," Woodward said. "And when we notified Lindsy about her connection, her words were, 'This is the most exciting e-mail that I have ever received.'"

A new perspective
Cieslewicz confirmed Woodward's account. She said the rest of her family -- including her husband and their five children -- were excited as well, especially with Thanksgiving just around the corner.

"We always go and collect books for the different holidays with my children," she said. "We sat down to read one the other day, and it was the children's story about Thanksgiving. I said, 'Wait, look, we're related to this side, and we're related to that side.' What an amazing thing to be able to sit down with my children and talk to them about the Thanksgiving story, and be able to say, 'One of these Pilgrims is your great-grandfather, and a Native American was also.'"

Cieslewicz said her brother mused that if the first Thanksgiving didn't turn out the way it did, neither of them might have existed. "It sure makes me glad that they decided to have dinner together instead of killing each other," she quoted him as saying.

Meanwhile, in Africa...
While Cieslewicz and her family are getting ready for a Utah Thanksgiving, William Holland and his family are in the midst of a Cameroon homecoming. In September, I told you how GeneTree helped Holland determine that he was related to royalty in the West African nation. This week Holland traveled back to Bamenda, along with his mother and two of his siblings.
 

Courtesy of William Holland

Atlanta researcher William Holland was accepted as a long-lost relative of Cameroon's royal family, based on DNA testing and pedigree analysis.

Holland said his newfound genetic relatives in Cameroon's North West Province were planning a full schedule of celebrations and tours over the next three weeks. One of the places they'll be staying is the palace of the Mankon tribe's chief, His Royal Highness Fo Angwafo III.

"I don't know how we're going to take all this," Holland told me just before the family's departure for Africa. "My mother said, 'I think I'm going to run.'"

He said his family tree includes links to three prominent families in Cameroon, and representatives from all three clans were due to greet the visitors from America. Another high-ranking figure was due to show up as well, to render an apology of sorts. The way Holland explained it, Africans from the area around Bamendjinda in Cameroon played a part in the slave trade of the 18th century. Holland said the present-day chief in Bamendjinda, Jean-Marie Tanefo, wanted to tell Holland about the circumstances that brought his ancestors to America in chains durng the 1770s.

"It's hard to put your finger on it," Holland said. "You have a family you're related to, and then you have a family that wants to make up for something they did wrong. I'm a little nervous, a little excited -- all rolled into one."

If I hear anything from Holland while he's on his trip, I'll be sure to pass it along.

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Benicio Samuel Sanchez
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Website:  http://www.Genealogia.org.mx
Cell Phone (81) 1667-2480

"Haz tu Arbol Genealogico...El Arbol mas Hermoso de la Creacion"


Por medio de la historia familiar descubrimos el árbol más hermoso de la creación: nuestro árbol genealógico. Sus numerosas raíces se remontan a la historia y sus ramas se extienden a través de la eternidad. La historia familiar es la expresión extensiva del amor eterno; nace de la abnegación y provee la oportunidad de asegurarse para siempre una unidad familiar".
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