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Discovering your family's history and legacy is both exciting and time-consuming. Dancestors Genealogy focuses on the time-consuming parts so you can focus on the exciting part! We help you make sense of your disorganized boxes of family photos. By bringing them to life, we help you understand the story of how your family came to be what it is today. We also provide extensive research as it applies to your family's history, ancestry, and archives. Through this information, we'll develop an exquisite Narrative Family Legacy book. Are you looking for more insight into your family?
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Coronavirus is dominating the news. What used to scare folks?
The picture above shows my Great Uncle Ralph on the big horse with his brothers Luther, and my Grandpa Virgil on the pony. The picture to left shows brothers Luther, Virgil, Clifford, and baby James. Baby James died of measles in May 1921, and Ralph the oldest died 3 months later of typhoid fever in August 1921. That was a rough summer for the family, but it was not an uncommon story back in the day. If you are curious about how your family members passed away, Dancestors can find out...
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Good morning readers and now listeners,
Don’t forget to listen in every other Saturday at 1 PM CST to the “Live Your True Life” Family Historian segment on the Ashley Berges show on KBTD 1160-AM in Dallas on the USA Radio Network or look up Ashley Berges on Facebook where the show is live.
Listen to me on Spreaker at http://www.spreaker.com/user/ashleyberges
Check out the website: www.ashleyberges.com
The segment starts on January 25th. If you miss the show, the segments will be available as podcasts on our website at www.dancestorsgenealogy.com or on our YouTube channel Dancestors Genealogy, or at Apple podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-your-true-life-perspectives-with-ashley-berges/id839257367
The first few segments will be mostly background,...
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Good morning fellow skin-wearers,
Have you ever heard of "Anthropodermic Bibliopegy"? I hadn’t either, but I can assure you it is not a binding option for our beautiful Dancestors Genealogy books!
Skin-bound books may sound like weird artifacts that belong in Evil Dead movies or Dungeons and Dragons campaigns. But from the 1600s to 1800s, these suede-like tomes were less necromancy, more commemorative plate. And converting yourself into human moleskin upon kicking the bucket made for a heartfelt present.
The pre-anesthesia surgery blog “The Chirurgeon's Apprentice” has a charming overview of the history of "anthropodermic bibliopegy," or the process of binding books with human skin.
Although this process sounds gruesome to...
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Good morning to all of you who now have the benefit of 2020 vision,
This is the time of year where we make our New Year’s resolutions. One of the common resolutions is to get organized. Get rid of the clutter. Dancestors Genealogy can help with that by taking that “box or boxes” of old photos, historical documents, stories, charts, and family nick-nacks and turn it all into a beautiful heirloom book that sits on the coffee table vs. being tucked away on a closet shelf.
Here’s a recent link from Popular Science that shows you how to get your photos, old or...
Posted at 23:17h
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Good morning fellow shoppers,
I hope you and your family are in good spirits and health as we find ourselves in the 2019 holiday season.
By the time you read this, you will have already enjoyed a big plate of food, gave thanks, and hopefully spent time with your loved ones, family, and friends, and you survived Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday!
After so many years of trying to purchase thoughtful and creative presents for your loved ones, do you find yourself feeling like “you didn’t quite hit the mark” when it came to the uniqueness and personalization of your...
Posted at 06:28h
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Good morning Gene-bearers,
A lot of news so far this year on how DNA has helped solve some horrible crimes. That’s good news if want to see criminals off the street, less so if you’re a bad guy.
What the Golden State Killer Tells Us About Forensic Genetics:
In the year since the arrest of the Golden State Killer, investigative genetic genealogy has emerged as the most powerful crime-fighting tool since DNA itself. Read in WIRED: https://apple.news/Acw9u04BgS8afhZtORqnLTQ
Wouldn’t it be interesting to find out you had an alleged vampire in your family tree?
A ‘vampire’s’ remains were found in 1990. DNA is giving him a...
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Good morning grandchildren of your parent’s parents,
I thought I’d just share some good stuff with you on the DNA of your possible ancestors.
DNA from medieval Crusader skeletons suggests surprising diversity DNA suggests Crusaders intermarried with local people and their sons also fought.
Read in Ars Technica: https://apple.news/ANUy8oBioQzOTt57l4WBVNg
If you want to know for sure who you’re ancestors are and have it placed into a beautiful family heirloom for a family member’s birthday, anniversary or Christmas, just reply back and Dan-cestors will be on the case, putting the pieces together and capturing your family’s story!
Let Dan-cestors help you find those “strangers in your box”....
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Good morning fellow DNA containers!
Ancestry announced that they'll be updating their DNA ethnicity results for their customers. Since I am pretty sure my sample didn't change, what would cause the results to be updated?
If you're interested in knowing why, here's a link:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ancestry-genealogy-website-dna-result-changes-1.4826831
If you're trying to hide from your DNA results or maybe looking for someone who share's your DNA results, here's a link that may interest you:
Genealogy sites help birth parents find kids they placed for adoption. But not everyone wants to be found.
DeAnn Link is searching for her daughter. She'd be 23 years old now.
Read in Chicago Tribune: https://apple.news/Ak56fw9jgS9uZxMByUfLq2A
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A DNA Website Wants to Upload Einstein’s DNA
The Atlantic
Companies are now analyzing old envelopes and stamps. Who has the right to test a dead person’s DNA? Read the full story
Shared from Apple News
Find out if Einstein is in your tree!...
Posted at 02:46h
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Here's a story from The New York Times that I thought you'd find interesting:
Families with great wealth or businesses are using their histories to help their heirs guide their enterprises — or at least appreciate how hard earlier generations worked to acquire their money.
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