"IRISH" GENOME REVEALS MAJOR GENETIC CONTRIBUTION FROM EASTERN EUROPE!

WASHINGTON POST - IRISH GENOME REVEALS MASSIVE MIGRATION FROM EASTERN EUROPE    full article by Rachel Feltman





Ever wonder how it is that there are "Black Irish?" - the Irish with dark hair and eyes?  The ancient legends tell us that there were people who came from the sea - the sulkies - the sea lions, which you might remember from the wonderful film called "The Secret of Roan Inish."  But there is now a scientific explanation...


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Just over 5,000 years ago, there lived an Irish farmer with black hair and dark eyes. Her DNA spoke of ancestors mostly Middle Eastern in origin, and she would have looked more like a southern European woman than a red-haired Irish lass.



But just 1,000 years later, her world was full of blue eyed easterners. This quick transition to Ireland as we know it, genetically speaking, is likely due to a massive migration that occurred sometime during those 1,000 years. The evidence comes from a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, where geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Queen's University Belfast sequenced the genomes of four ancient citizens of Ireland to unlock the secrets of their origins....


Study author Dan Bradley, professor of population genetics at Trinity College Dublin, explained that recent technological and methodological advances in ancient DNA analysis allowed his team to produce full genomes for the four skeletons used in their research. They were surprised to see how different the Neolithic woman, who was found in Belfast in 1855 and lived over 5,000 years ago, was from the three male skeletons analyzed, who were found off of Rathlin Island in 2006. With just 1,000 years separating them, their genomes shouldn't have looked so strikingly different - which suggests that some major migration really must have occurred.


(The major migration was likely from an area now in the UKRAINE!)

USING BIRTHSTONES TO FIGURE OUT A PERSON's BIRTH MONTH

AMERICAN GEM SOCIETY - ON BIRTHSTONE RINGS

EXCERPT:

The origin of birthstones is believed to date back to the breastplate of Aaron which contained twelve gemstones representing the twelve tribes of Israel. The current list dates back to 1912 with only one addition since then – the tanzanite was added to December.

There are numerous legends and myths about birthstone healing powers and their therapeutic influence. According to these legends, wearing a gemstone during its assigned month heightened its healing powers. For the full effect, individuals needed to own all twelve and alternate them monthly.

Those of you who have had the experience of trying to find enough information about a member of your family who little is known or remembered about, have probably tried using old photos, looking at the clothing they wore, the hair styles and facial hair, the local architecture, signage, anything at all in the picture to put them in a time and place when that photo was taken.  But I just met someone who used jewelry, and because this person had a number of pieces in a semi precious stone, correctly found that these correlated with a birth month!

It's worth a try!

FAITH, HOPE, LOVE, and LUCK : WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF FINDING A FOUR LEAF CLOVER?

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What Makes Four-Leaf Clovers Lucky Anyway?  According to this web site, the tradition started long before St. Patrick's day, but with the Druids.  Lot's of interesting information!

 

12,000 BLUE EYED "ARYAN" CHILDREN TAKEN BY THE NAZI'S ' WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?

DAILY MAIL UK ; 12,000 BLUE EYED CHILDREN TAKEN TO CREATE ARYAN SUPER RACE  Andrew Malone for the Daily Mail

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Folker, then just four, did not know it, but he had been chosen to be part of the new 'breed' of supposedly genetically-superior German beings, who would replace millions of the 'impure'  -  Jews, gipsies, homosexuals, blacks  -  after they had been exterminated in Hitler's death camps.
 
Having being ripped from the arms of his parents when German tanks rolled into the Crimea in 1942, Folker was first taken by SS officers to a German medical institute, where doctors measured every part of his body, checking for any 'Jewish aspects'  -  for example, dark hair, pointed noses, circumcision  -  before he was declared suitable.

He had been selected to be a member of the 'Lebensborn'  -  The Fount of Life  -  Himmler's breeding programme to safeguard the future of the Thousand-Year Reich by providing 'pure' future generations to replace those lost by war.

Devised in 1935, the Lebensborn scheme operated on different levels to provide 'Aryan' children for Hitler's mad schemes of eugenics.

As well as the stealing of blond children from families in occupied areas, another part of the scheme involved special 'breeding clinics' where pure German SS officers were told to mate with suitable German women.


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I have a story to tell about this...

I once was introduced to an old Blue Eyed woman and was later told by her house-mate that she had absolutely no idea about her heritage and had no family.  My associate speculated that she was one of the children born in Hitler's breeding program.  She did look "German," to me and was about the right age.  The woman lived alone in a house in Los Angeles, had never married or had children, and was quite isolated. How she afforded anything was a mystery. 

When I read this article I thought about her, and others who have an unknown or unspoken heritage, for which they personally have no responsibility at all.

Sometimes people will challenge me, stating that I could not possible do their genealogy.  Often they are wrong, simply they are unaware of how much public information is out there.  However, in a case like this I would be stymied. 

TUPPERWEAR - THE DVD - ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEALOGY DVD REVIEW

 



 TUPPERWARE is the story of how the plastic food storage bowls with tight fitting lids that were invented by Earl Silas Tupper in the 1950's and marketed to and by housewives to other housewives by a self-taught marketing wiz named Brownie Wise, began and expanded, leading to what is now considered a global business.  Sadly, there is evidence that after Brownie managed to break through obstacles for women to earn money and work, talking to husbands so that they would "allow" their wives to earn, not "bread and butter" but "cake,"  holding contests and fun jamborees for her mostly female sales force, came the day when Earl  Silas Tupper decided that she needed to be - disappeared.

 

The end of Brownie Wise's reign is a bit of a mystery with hints of a falling out, serious undiagnosed illness that was probably exhaustion (though sometimes I wonder about hyperactivity when I hear of people who never seem to be without energy), or some other medical malady that prevented her from working.  Her name was no longer referenced at the company and it was as if she had never existed.  (Shameful!)

 

She tried, however, to start up her own make-up empire that also used the chain sales and party plan technique that she had been so successful with for Tupperware, and failed.  The Tupperware people stayed with that company for many reasons, including their efforts to get where they had gone, and perhaps the saddest, but most predictable thing for the era in which is was standard operating procedure for women employs to be paid less than men just because they were women and assumed to be less deserving, is that for all her work she did not retire rich.

 

Brownie knew that a woman could not approach a bank for a loan and that some of her most successful sales women would have husbands who would get with the program.  In some interviews of senior women who began with the company early, we learn of men who quit those "bread and butter" jobs for the speculation of greater wealth.

 

Though this DVD doesn't get feminist,  I couldn't help but think of the issues of equality in the workplace and in education, and all the changes that have occurred to us as a nation since the 1950's, so that a stay at home wife and mother is today pretty rare, especially once the children are in school.  I've personally always been skeptical of party plan and chain sales companies since being invited to them to buy things like candles, lingerie, and so on has always felt like pressure to buy things in order to keep a friendship.

 

As a woman and as a genealogist, the absence of records for women is often an issue, a roadblock that must be gotten around.  In a sexist cultures women are simply not thought of as significant enough to be recorded.  Example: Baptismal records that only record the name of the father since he "owns" the child.  The many death records I've seen where the wife is listed as "Mrs. Jones" without a first name, or even references to her parents, as if the woman was an orphan, when she was not.  (How could her husband, the death certificate reporter not know this information?)

 

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IS THERE A DIFFERENCE IN ATTITUDE ABOUT GENEALOGY IN GREAT BRITAIN VERSUS THE UNITED STATES?

I think so, but only because just about everyone I've talked to about this seems to think so.  The difference is this.  Americans seem to be much more focused on the immigration to a new country, and how much their ancestors earned their Americanism; the wars they fought, that they were pioneers, how the first and second generation suffered so that the next generations could succeed and have more opportunity, or the pride of the ancestor portraits on the wall that each come with a story of endeavors.  Supposedly in Great Britain and other European countries people do their charts without the connected stories and say "this is so." 

But since I enjoy differing with the opinion, may I suggest that perhaps it's simply because Europeans, in particular those in England, GREW UP KNOWING THE STORIES, CONSIDER THEM FAMILIAL and PRIVATE - or COMMON KNOWLEDGE WITHIN THEIR SET, and think they will bore others and be rude if they tell on their ancestors.  In other words, is it the NEWNESS OF KNOWING THE STORY that makes American's so into the stories?

As a genealogist, I find my own familial stories and the stories that others tell me very interesting, and maybe that's one of the reasons I pursue this study, because I've never been bored by it.  I think I've learned so much more about history and cultures through ancestors and the research surrounding them than I ever did sitting in a classroom or lecture hall.

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PHILOMENA : ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEALOGY FILM REVIEW (IRISH CATHOLIC UNWED MOTHERS AND THE SISTERS OF THE GOOD SHEPERD

This film got 4 Academy Award nominations

and is based on a book by Martin Sixsmith.

 

Obviously well regarded, the true story based on the book by Sixsmith, that was up for Academy Awards such as Best Picture and Best Actress (Judi Dench), is a heartbreaker.

Philomena Lee was an Irish girl sent away to a Catholic charity run by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd to have her illegitimate baby.  Many of these girls were from very poor families and very underage.  Some did not survive childbirth.  Let me be clear that as portrayed some of these nuns have a punishing attitude towards women who got pregnant without marriage, in Philomena's case a first love, but it goes without saying in the film that some of them were probably pregnant by rape and incest.  That Philomenia had been searching for the son she gave up and her son, also for her, and that these sisters LIED to both of them, keeping the separation between them, and that by the time Philomenia and Sixsmith did identify her son, it was too late because he had died young of AIDS is especially horrifying.

 

Yet, I need to tell my readers that this experience is not ALWAYS the experience with Catholic Archives and nuns or members of Holy Orders, even as I have waited many years for a branch of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd's to respond to a request.  I've also asked the Catholic Archives to intervene with them for me without success. Simply, their numbers have dwindled down and they do not have the time to look up old records for me, and I frankly do not think I could speed anyone up with the promise of unasked for pay, not even if it was a significant donation. The attitude that the nun in the film has was not just her own, but often the attitude of the culture at the time. Perhaps Irish Catholicism was especially punishing.  Certainly you would not find our present Pope Francis with such an attitude.

 

But as a genealogist I was watching the film hoping for more clues as to how exactly Philomenia's son was found by Sixsmith, and I think I'm going to read the book in case there are some research lessons to be gained by reading it. All films tend to cut through a lot of information in order to get the essence of the story down. I watched a special feature about the real Philomena Lee. and I realized how courageous she was to let her story be told in a journalistic article written by Sixsmith. I take it that funding the travel that he did with this woman may have been funded by a news business and that he was under pressure to reveal what happened, even as Philomenia had mixed feelings about doing so. She also has forgiveness, which for her is healing.

 

For those of you who are Birth Parents or Adopted Children looking to find one another, the various REGISTRIES where you sign up to be matched are probably the first thing to do, and can be quickly successful.Philomenia as portrayed had her mind made up and her head on straight during the search, even as she encountered terrible disappointment; many of you need to be in therapy to deal with the search. I say that because it is not a genealogists place to be leaned on to the point of having to play therapist or be a persons great support through this process and I've had searchers waver and cancel on me unable to handle the process.

 

Depending on where you live, what COUNTY and STATE you were given up for adoption, various rules may apply. In some cases getting identifying information on a parent after a Closed adoption is near impossible BUT the registries cut through all that. A Closed adoption was sometimes how ALL adoptions were done and does not necessarily imply that the situation in which a child was born was especially bad.There are even families who simply gave children they knew they could not support up for adoption because they already had so very many!

 

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QUESTION FROM READER : HOW CAN I DO GENEALOGY WHEN I COME FROM A SCREWED UP FAMILY?

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I would like to do family history research and genealogy, but I'm getting nowhere with my screwed up family. There is no cooperation and I don't even think they're much interested. When I go to research at my local Family History Center I'm surrounded by people who have decent families that are happy, helpful, and excited to learn more about their people. I say not a word, since I don't want to lie, but I also don't want to tell the truth, that in my family no one says I love you, there's no sharing at the dinner table, and the only thing that can be counted on are crazy scenes.  It's lonely.

Should I just forget it?

Elizabeth

Answer from Ancestry Worship - Genealogy

Elizabeth, you're not the only person who's embarked on the exciting adventure of learning more about your family history and ancestry without cooperation.  Seems to me the one thing you cannot count on is that your research work will heal your family.  But since there are so very many reasons why people do get into their research work, I urge you to stick with it, just for YOU!  Maybe you'll achieve a greater understanding of your people, which will be interesting for you, if not healing. 

At Family History Centers and other research libraries, though many people do share about their families and their research, and you can learn a lot from each other on how to, it's best to keep to a professional attitude.  Pretend the family you are researching isn't yours!

Also take heart in knowing that almost every family has some stinkers.  While researching aside other people I've heard many stories about what got dug up... in particular domestic violence.  One researcher learned that her great grandfather had been killed when his granddaughter finally retaliated and he went rolling down the stairs.  There were news articles about it and interestingly, the granddaughter was never arrested or prosecuted because everyone in town knew this man was a monster.

Researching history and genealogies has actually made me more of a feminist than ever. I'm so glad women have more choices about their lives and don't have to marry or stay married to have a place in this world.

I've also met people who were so not politically correct, they didn't even mind being known as bigots. I had networked for one family because of a dead end, and learned that a dozen researchers were working on the same issue, which brother, living in a Carolina compound, had which father.  To know would have meant proofing the link to a well known historical family in Scotland.  DNA had just become available, and this person had reached out to me to locate someone who would be willing to take the test, and I knew exactly where the only candidate lived.  But before I could write to this man and plea the case of the very many researchers who needed to know, it was suggested to me that the family had been Jewish. I put that out there for comment.

I got a railing, seething e-mail that made my heart pound as someone suggested to me this could not be because, to paraphrase, "The family is Christian and loves Jesus Christ and everybody knows Jews are "Christ Killers" so it is impossible!"

So, Elizabeth, get ye down to your local Family History Center and learn to be a genealogist.  It will preserve your intellect far better than doing crossword puzzles, and someday you too will meet others with screwy families!

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FROM ONE BOOKWORM TO ANOTHER - HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

This one I like and can relate to.

But is it a Valentine?

SEXIST AND RACIST - OFFENSIVE VALENTINES THAT WE HAVE TO PUT INTO HISTORICAL CONTEXT

Today I've been looking for a VALENTINE to post on this blog, sorting through the offerings that come up in Google Images when I add the words "public domain" and "Vintage" or "Old." 

I've seen Valentines that, using the usual cartoonish or highly romantic art, depict, supposedly with humor, the beating of a woman so that she will finally be the Valentine of the man who gifted her with it.  Not funny.  Not loving.

But the idea that a card giver might batter or insult a woman to get her to like him rests in sexism and attitudes towards women that have not entirely changed, very sad to say. 

I, as a writer, reader, literature major, and dogged researcher,

found this one deeply personally offensive.

The idea was that a boy giving this Valentine to a girl

didn't really want an intelligent or educated woman.

 

(MANY OF US HAVE GRANDPARENTS WHO NEVER LEARNED TO READ AND WRITE, who made their mark of an X on legal documents with a witness there as a result and many of us have parents who dropped out of high school and had to get their G.E.D. or equivalent after they served in the armed forces or got through working at anything during the Great Depression.)

This one was probably considered rather risqué back in the day

but these days with the Kardashian sisters showing off

their booties on a regular basis, we've grown numb.

I also found a few Valentines - very few - that depicted cartoonish or romantic BLACK people.  Since most of these were pretty much in line with the Valentines that depicted cartoonish or romantic WHITE people, I decided that they were not offensive.

But these two, below, did seem to be.  I had to wonder if BLACK people had found it difficult to purchase Valentines and other cards that showed people who looked like them in the stores. 



Of course, the handmade Valentine, especially the ones made by children for their parents and siblings, grandparents, cousins, and friends, are probably most endearing and a way around the offensive.  Right now kids are making Valentines in their school classrooms and at special programs staged at libraries and I'm sure that many handmade Valentines have remained cherished with all those drawings, and all the glitter glue.

This morning I was talking to a stranger about Valentines.  I told her that a couple years ago, because Valentines used to be given to friends from friends, I gave a dozen people who were perhaps more acquaintances than friends, small fun cards with a piece of good chocolate each when we had lunch together about that time.  One of the men, though he was at the table when I distributed these to one and all, unexpectedly took this small offering as a come on by me.  Just what I didn't need.

But I do remember, even if perhaps a parent or a teacher thought that every child in class should receive a Valentine from every other child in the class, the excitement of being seven years old, having a kid crush on one particular boy, and how wonderful and special it felt when his Valentine was delivered to my desk.  I recall the fun of a decorated classroom and a specially wrapped Valentine box that served as a mail box and how it was considered an honor to be picked to be the mail carrier!

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