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From: "Bob W" <[email protected]>
To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 3:08 AM
Subject: VOT: Roots
Here's quite an interesting story which could turn into something useful
for
people such as Americans, Canadians and so on whose families came from
Europe many generations ago:
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_east_and_fife/10520789.stm>
In some cases, of course, a person's village of origin is encoded in their
surname...
Very cool. My layman's interest in this subject began with reading "View
from the Center of the Universe" http://viewfromthecenter.com/ , which
then led me to the book *The Seven Daughters of Eve* by Bryan Sykes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Daughters_of_Eve . If you are
willing to be tested, which I am, but I'm still working on that 180 pound
sterling to pay for such a test, you can go to Sykes web site here.
http://www.oxfordancestors.com/ . Even if you're not interested, it's a
very interesting subject. Much of the tracing of ancestors is based on
following what the scientists call in layman terms "the mommy gene."
Cheers, Christine
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