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Yo Ancestors

From Patchwork And So Forth (c)2005 James A. George, All Rights Reserved"Chapter 4 Yo Ancestors The Welsh have a reputation for their waxing poetically and singing, though true to life they come from the stock of...

opinion by YankeeJim | 8 wks ago | updated 8 wks ago
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Human Genome Research Advances Without Discussion of "Race"

Today, by reading scientific results of studies instead of sociological commentary, I have learned something about African people that I didn't know before: Africans are more diverse genetically than people anywhere else in the world, finds a study that "was funded by the...

created by francislholland | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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arcalife.com: Just In Time For Recording Holiday Memories

A New Family Community To Store and Share Your Family Experiences arcalife is a new online family community where you can store all of your life's greatest memories, photos, videos, events and moments, while connecting with your family, searching your family genealogy and...

opinion by megan cole | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Welshie

70 years of historic Canadian immigration records now online - world first

In a world first Ancestry.ca, Canada's leading family history website, today launched online the Canadian Passenger Lists,1865-1935, which contains more than 7.2 million names, including 5.6 million of those who...

created by Welshie | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Senator Obama: America's 6th Black President?

Rhonda J Mangus

Senator Obama: America's 6th Black President?

Democratic presidential hopeful, Senator Barack Obama, may not be the United States' first black president if elected to the presidency in November. The reason people may identify Senator Barack Obama as the...

created by Rhonda J Mangus | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Kevin Rudd descended from thieves and forgers

sweet east pearl

Kevin Rudd descended from thieves and forgers

The PM learned of his colourful antecedents yesterday when presented with two leather-bound volumes of his family tree. PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd is descended from solid convict stock, and his forebears include...

created by sweet east pearl | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Brotherhood of Man

Brotherhood of ManIn the April 6 edition of "The New York Times magazine,Professor Beverly Gage offers a fascinating glance at former PresidentWarren G. Harding’s possible racial history, or “negro” heritage,detailed by accounts by historian William...

created by villager | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Canada First Nations:Celebrate 1 Million Mark

Barry ORegan

Canada First Nations:Celebrate 1 Million Mark

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly a bittersweet celebration of a Proud Peoples whose population 500 years ago in North America was estimated to be 10 million aboriginals, with a possible...

created by Barry ORegan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Barry ORegan

Are We, Who We Are? Or What We Were?

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWe all know racism exists in some form or another, will Technology and Immigration eradicate Racism one day? What with vast developments in technology and immigration,...

created by Barry ORegan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Chicago 10th-graders trace ancestry through DNA

"Sixteen-year-old Diamond Howard is learning about world history, anthropology, sociology and biology using a one-of-a-kind tool: her own DNA."

created by bjtindle | 5 years ago
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African America: Mitochondrial DNA may not hold the key to your origins after...

"Mitochondrial DNA may not hold the key to your origins after all. A study published in the open access journal BMC Biology reveals that fewer than 10% of African American mitochondrial DNA sequences analysed can be matched to mitochondrial DNA from one single African ethnic...