NPR: GERMAN BIRTH REGISTRY NOW ALLOWS THIRD GENDER OPTION
If you think the third gender option is to list the baby as intersexed or a just born transgender, you're wrong. The third option is to not list gender.
28 April 2018
21 April 2018
IS COUSIN MARRIAGE REALLY BAD FOR YOU?
DISCOVER MAGAZINE - INDIVIDUAL - SOCIAL RISKS OF COUSIN MARRIAGE by Razib Khan
A very interesting article from 2010...
EXCERPT
What are the risks of cousin marriage? Most obviously there are recessive diseases. Those illnesses which are expressed when you carry two malfunctional copies of a gene. Cystic fibrosis, tay sachs, various forms of deafness. Why is it that cousins have a higher risk of this occurring? Because two cousins are much more likely than two random individuals to share the same distinct gene from a common ancestor, because their common ancestors are so much more recent. More precisely the coefficient of kinship between two first cousins is 1/8. That means that at any given locus there’s a 1 out of 8 chance that the two individuals will have alleles which are identical by descent, which means that the genetic variant comes down from the same person in the family line.
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Found this one while looking into reasons why the Catholic Church might want to give "special dispensation" in Europe in the 1800's. Don't know if I got that answer, but I have met people born in the United States whose parents were cousins married in the Old Country pre immigration.
A very interesting article from 2010...
EXCERPT
What are the risks of cousin marriage? Most obviously there are recessive diseases. Those illnesses which are expressed when you carry two malfunctional copies of a gene. Cystic fibrosis, tay sachs, various forms of deafness. Why is it that cousins have a higher risk of this occurring? Because two cousins are much more likely than two random individuals to share the same distinct gene from a common ancestor, because their common ancestors are so much more recent. More precisely the coefficient of kinship between two first cousins is 1/8. That means that at any given locus there’s a 1 out of 8 chance that the two individuals will have alleles which are identical by descent, which means that the genetic variant comes down from the same person in the family line.
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Found this one while looking into reasons why the Catholic Church might want to give "special dispensation" in Europe in the 1800's. Don't know if I got that answer, but I have met people born in the United States whose parents were cousins married in the Old Country pre immigration.
18 April 2018
07 April 2018
SOUL SURVIVOR book ABOUT REINCARNATION - GENEALOGY TYPE RESEARCH USED TO VERIFY
This book intrigued me, not just because it's about one of the most convincing stories
of reincarnation in modern times, but because Bruce Leininger, the father of James, the child who remembered he was a World War II pilot who burned up and crashed in his plane in Japan, used research methods that any genealogist or family historian can relate to!
The devout Christian father had issues with the very idea of reincarnation, but slowly he became convinced as he decided to apply research methods to the many small comments that his son, beginning at about age 2, made. Little James knew planes and plane parts, but he also named some of the men he was associated with back in the day as well as the name of the body his soul inhabited in the last. And so Bruce attempted to get military records (but ran into the problem of not being a family member), contacted men who remembered the pilot, met with them (claiming he was only writing a book, though as we see he eventually did), and discovered that these old veterans were not as dismissive as he feared. The story is interesting and convincing and Leininger and his wife (James' mom) Andrea, along with Ken Gross, manage to build their story so that you too will feel no stone was left unturned!
C Book Review Ancestry Worship - Genealogy BlogSpot. All Rights Reserved.
The devout Christian father had issues with the very idea of reincarnation, but slowly he became convinced as he decided to apply research methods to the many small comments that his son, beginning at about age 2, made. Little James knew planes and plane parts, but he also named some of the men he was associated with back in the day as well as the name of the body his soul inhabited in the last. And so Bruce attempted to get military records (but ran into the problem of not being a family member), contacted men who remembered the pilot, met with them (claiming he was only writing a book, though as we see he eventually did), and discovered that these old veterans were not as dismissive as he feared. The story is interesting and convincing and Leininger and his wife (James' mom) Andrea, along with Ken Gross, manage to build their story so that you too will feel no stone was left unturned!
C Book Review Ancestry Worship - Genealogy BlogSpot. All Rights Reserved.
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