BLACK DEATH PLAGUE - Worst Pandemic In History - ORIGIN SOLVED WITH DNA FROM EARLY 14th CENTURY

Reueters Lifestyle Science Ancient DNA Solves Black Death Mystery 

Excerpt: Researchers said on Wednesday they retrieved ancient DNA traces of the Yersinia pestis plague bacterium from the teeth of three women buried in a medieval Nestorian Christian community in Chu Valley near Lake Issyk Kul in the foothills of the Tian Shan mountains who perished in 1338-1339.  The earliest deaths documented elsewhere in the pandemic were in  1346.

Interesting article!  (That's Central Asia in norther Kyrgystan.)

ANCESTRY PAID DATABASES RELEASES BURIAL RECORDS FOR MILITARY BURIALS IN TIME FOR VETERANS DAY

National Cemeteries Administration released records of thousands of military personnel which through the paid genealogy database Ancestry (not related to this blog) and what's special is that your ancestor's burial record may include interesting notes.  The Rueters news service, which released the story that was picked up in papers around the country : RUETERS STORY : MILITARY BURIAL RECORDS RELEASED THROUGH ANCESTRY

"They were posted on Ancestry.com through a partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the National Archives and Records Administration, said Todd Godfrey, the Utah-based company's senior director for U.S. content."

BARBADOS and SOUTH CAROLINA LINKED BY SLAVE TRADE AND IMMIGRATION

Harriet McLeod, a Rueters journalist, wrote this article, linked above, about the historic links between the island of Barbados and South Carolina.

There were 600,000 people in Barbados by 1670, most slaves, and then people began to leave that country for life in South Carolina. Part of our American history, the New England - Barbados - South Carolina triangle trading zone may explain some of the movement your ancestors made before they become southerners.