> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Christine Aguila > Sent: 07 July 2010 18:30 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Roots > > > ----- Original Message ----- > 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: > > < > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_east_and_fife/10520789.st > m> > > > > 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
I have Sykes's book, plus the follow-up. I can also recommend Stephen Oppenheimer's books which go into the details on a global basis. Oxford Ancestors also do the Y chromosome tests, so you can get both sets of ancestors done. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
