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Branch: M89

Age: Around 50,000 Years Ago

Location of Origin: South Asia or West Asia

The next male ancestor in your ancestral lineage is the man who gave rise to M89, a marker found in 90 to 95 percent of all non-Africans. This man was born around 50,000 years ago in northern Africa or the Middle East.

The first people to leave Africa likely followed a coastal route that eventually ended in Australia. Your ancestors followed the expanding grasslands and plentiful game to the Middle East and beyond,

As humans left Africa, they migrated across the globe in a web of paths that spread out like the branches of a tree, each limb of migration identifiable by a marker in our DNA. For male lineages, the M168 branch was one of the first to leave the African homeland.

Moving outward from Africa and along the coastline, members of this lineage were some of the earliest settlers in Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Some from this

I've been trying to continue tracing my  McGregor line back, but have been stuck for quite a long time.  I do know that my 2x gr grandfather Alexander McGregor was married in Kingussie, Inverness in 1864 and was in Ontario in 1865 when their first child was born. Alex was born in Alvie in 1840 to John McGregor and Janet Meldrum.  Not married. I found Janet on the 1841 census still living in Alvie with little Alexander, her sister and their parents. Also on the census was 10 year old John McDonal

Looking for the DOYLE slaves of Burwell Lee of Pittsylvania Co, Virgina. All mulatto. My 2x Greatgrandmother, Sarah Doyle was born about 1840 in Virginia. Her children were; Parris, Emmerson, Mildred, Eliza, Peter Lee, Mary Elizabeth and Mattie. I have been told that Burwell's wife Mildred  may have owned Sarah prior to her marriage to Burwell.

A very dear cousin recently gave me a large old bible, which belonged to our Great-Grandmother, Mary Belle Doyle (Carr). No births or family tree listed, Just an inscription in the front. The bible was a gift from her nephew. In the bible is a newspaper clipping of the funeral of Frank Molloy. Frank was a young man who drowned in 1886  in Pine Lake, Laporte, Indiana. So the big question is Why did my GGrandmother have this clipping in the bible? an even bigger mystery is..My GGrandma was born in

Sometimes you see something visual and it just resonates with you on such a deep level that it starts the beginnings of an interest, an obsession, or even a love affair.

I was in the Catherine Couturier Gallery a couple months ago and came across a few pieces by artist Photographer Rachel Phillips, who considers herself a photographer yet uses her photography in such a unique manner via a transfer process that all her art works are one of a kind, completely unique. In her work entitled “Field Not

Groundbreaking Agreement to Deliver Valuable Historical Content Over the Next Five Years

PROVO, Utah, September 5, 2013 – Ancestry.com and FamilySearch International (online at FamilySearch.org), the two largest providers of family history resources, announced today an agreement that is expected to make approximately 1 billion global historical records available online and more easily accessible to the public for the first time. With this long-term strategic agreement, the two services will work

Eastman Lineage and it has a Rook in it. 

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John Eastman 
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John   Downton, England burial birth around 1450 ?

I am researching the Mollett family in the UK, I have quite a lot of info so far. I am a decended from Rizen Mollett who's brother Noah went to America in the 1700s.

Looking for any information on a Barney Gua born 15 Oct 1887 Moorhead,MN.

died 1 Feb 1959 buried Black Hills National Cemetery.

Parents were said to be Joseph and Mary Gua

Well, what was my greatest thing for the week in genealogy?  Number one was getting the phone tree results for people attending our Free upcoming Seminar.  

It actually was quite an affair due to, sluggish computers, lack of servers, downed systems and lost emails. No, Not Mine, but the actual people involved.  Yes, that is a first.  I may blog about it down the road.

My personal delight was linking to two more distant relatives and finding sources for five of my Ancestor's data.

If only we had kno

  Today is Thursday,  it has become a day of discovery.

  Grandson resting at home with concussion and moving slowly.

  The phone has rang and rang and the emails keep coming and going.

   Yah, Head way is being made. Discovered that there was an error in announcements system of our team.

    We have corrected it.  Now just to get the web page to log the attendees in with out a glich.

   Seminar Sept 7, 2013,  Free open to the public at the Bonita-Sunnyside Library.

The Chula vista Genealogical Soc

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