29 January 2020
ARE DNA TESTING COMPANIES GOING TO GO BUST? SEEMS THE DNA TESTING BOOM IS OVER
YAHOO FINANCE : ONCE HOT DNA TESTING article by Daniel Roberts
Excerpt: It isn't just 23andme. DNA tests went boom in 2018 with the number of consumers who had bought one doubling to 25 million, now sales have gone bust.
MIT Technology Review estimates that the largest DNA test players sold just 4 million to 6 million DNA tests in 2019, an industry growth rate of 20 %, the slowest year for the industry ever.
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I have never done my DNA and to my knowledge, neither has anyone in my family. These companies and their owners have gotten rich, but the aspect of privacy invasion and your data no longer being yours (after about 20 years but currently for the use of law enforcement) is also in my opinion an aspect of the decline in interest. Further while DNA can help you if you're truly blocked, sometimes it's impatience or amateur genealogy that's the issue. Currently I have a friend who is stuck due to a common name and reportage of birth place different on three different census in the 1800's. I told her I've seen death certificates from the 1940's and before in which children do not know their mother's maiden name.
11 January 2020
2020 is CELEBRATION of 100 YEARS OF WOMEN's VOTE
Whatever your political persuasion, and though many feel their vote is worthless, I hope that all my readers who are citizens of the United States will use their vote in upcoming election which I feel to be more important than ever.
This year is 100 years since women (but for African American women in some states and Native American women) got the right to vote. It was hard won. Women called "suffragettes" rather than "feminists", fought for this right. It took over 40 years.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE GOV: HISTORY OF WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE
EXCERPT: Even though they were legally able to vote now, African American women were often barred from the polls. American Indian women were also not considered U.S. citizens until 1924 and could not vote.
It was a process.
Once Women got the right to vote in 1920 when the 19th Amendment was ratified, they also got the right (and responsibility) to file for their own citizenship. If you are doing African-American research, you want to check what state your ancestor was in and when African-American women there got the right to vote. Remember that there were local and state efforts by women to gain the vote as the momentum built over decades. Learning the niche history of your ancestor's voting and citizenship status can be an interesting addition to your family history writing. Before this it was assumed that the head of household - a man - voted as a representative of his family and that women's opinions ought to reflect that of their husbands.
So before women got the right to vote, they could become citizens by being included in their father's petition - also any children under the age of 18 would have been included. And yet, there was a punishment in place for women who married men who were not citizens yet and that was that they lost their own citizenship.
In my years as a genealogist, I have seen that some widows petitioned for their own citizenship and that of their children. So many immigrant men did dangerous work and lost their lives and there were many widows on their own until a possible remarriage. Perhaps remarriage was easy for the 20 somethings but an older widow with many children could find herself living the rest of her life without a husband to support her.
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This year is 100 years since women (but for African American women in some states and Native American women) got the right to vote. It was hard won. Women called "suffragettes" rather than "feminists", fought for this right. It took over 40 years.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE GOV: HISTORY OF WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE
EXCERPT: Even though they were legally able to vote now, African American women were often barred from the polls. American Indian women were also not considered U.S. citizens until 1924 and could not vote.
image from Wikipedia
It was a process.
Once Women got the right to vote in 1920 when the 19th Amendment was ratified, they also got the right (and responsibility) to file for their own citizenship. If you are doing African-American research, you want to check what state your ancestor was in and when African-American women there got the right to vote. Remember that there were local and state efforts by women to gain the vote as the momentum built over decades. Learning the niche history of your ancestor's voting and citizenship status can be an interesting addition to your family history writing. Before this it was assumed that the head of household - a man - voted as a representative of his family and that women's opinions ought to reflect that of their husbands.
So before women got the right to vote, they could become citizens by being included in their father's petition - also any children under the age of 18 would have been included. And yet, there was a punishment in place for women who married men who were not citizens yet and that was that they lost their own citizenship.
In my years as a genealogist, I have seen that some widows petitioned for their own citizenship and that of their children. So many immigrant men did dangerous work and lost their lives and there were many widows on their own until a possible remarriage. Perhaps remarriage was easy for the 20 somethings but an older widow with many children could find herself living the rest of her life without a husband to support her.
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All Rights Reserved
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