05 Mar Genealogist website March 5, 2022
Contents
- 1 THE GREAT EFFORTS TO MAKE ABE LINCOLN LOOK MORE PRESIDENTIAL
- 2 WE NOW HAVE THE LARGEST EVER HUMAN FAMILY TREE, WITH 231 MILLION ANCESTRAL LINEAGES
- 3 WE GET 50% OF OUR DNA FROM EACH OF OUR PARENTS. BUT IT’S NOT THE SAME 50% – UNLESS YOU ARE IDENTICAL TWINS.
- 4 THE USE OF DNA TO TRACK YOUR FAMILY’S DISEASE HISTORY BACK 280 YEARS!
- 5 PREGNANT WITH TWO CHILDREN AT THE SAME TIME WHO WERE NOT TWINS?
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- 7 BEN FRANKLIN’S REACTION TO VACCINATION
- 8 IN HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH
THE GREAT EFFORTS TO MAKE ABE LINCOLN LOOK MORE PRESIDENTIAL
Included painting his head on another politician’s posing. Ironically it was the fiery defender of slavery John Calhoun.
The secret was kept for a century!
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/abraham-lincoln-photos-edited
WE NOW HAVE THE LARGEST EVER HUMAN FAMILY TREE, WITH 231 MILLION ANCESTRAL LINEAGES
WE GET 50% OF OUR DNA FROM EACH OF OUR PARENTS. BUT IT’S NOT THE SAME 50% – UNLESS YOU ARE IDENTICAL TWINS.
Which is the most Irish of these four sisters?
Who’s More Irish, You or Your Sibling? The Surprising Science Behind the Inheritance of Ethnicity
THE USE OF DNA TO TRACK YOUR FAMILY’S DISEASE HISTORY BACK 280 YEARS!
How a Rare Brain Mutation Spread Across America. The Bowlin family knew they had a history of malformations in the brain. But they had no idea how far back it went….. family’s brain malformations, the cause of which was then traced all the way back to the 1760s.
PREGNANT WITH TWO CHILDREN AT THE SAME TIME WHO WERE NOT TWINS?
One of the challenges when working on distant ancestry is you will find birthdates for siblings only month’s apart which is obviously too far for twins or it was a bragworthy labor event.
I attribute the occurrence to the fact that those birthdates were often handed down in families and developed historically separate from one another, so the siblings kids were not checking to see how close the birthdates were when provided by their parents. However, this story provides another explanation.
BEN FRANKLIN’S REACTION TO VACCINATION
Dancestors Genealogy broke this 250-year old story months ago. Now the New York Times is catching up! I am looking forward to the PBS series on Benjamin Franklin. My wife’s grandmother was a Franklin, supposedly related to him, and I am still chasing down the story after 30 years of research. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/briefing/covid-vaccination-ben-franklin-ken-burns.html
IN HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Continuing from two weeks ago-
Now it was Captain Journey’s time to go west with his men, but he never left camp until the rains had set in. He then started with 200 men and traveled until they got near the Planes. The first thing they knew the Indians had them all surrounded. The Indians had their guns drawn on our men. Then our men said let us all drop our guns. This kept the Indians from firing on our men. The Indians then closed on them. There were about 200 of our men. The Captain said he thought there was about 1600 Indians. Captain Journey said that it was the first time that he was ever bad scared. “I felt small enough to go in an auger hole”, he said, “when I saw all them Indians pointing their guns at us”. But the Indians never hurt any of our men. They had an Indian with them that could speak our language and he did the talking for them. The Indians, I think, from what our men said, kept them about half of the day, holding a council over them. They then took all the best horses and best guns and all the blankets that our men had and told them to go home and “me Ketch you again me shoot you”. Our men said they were very glad to get off that easy. They thought the Indians would kill them. The most of them had to walk home. After that our men never went to the Planes any more. They stayed in camp here until the government sent some troops to Texas, and they built a fort where Fort Worth now is. After that we were not bothered much with the wild Indian.
I will now give you the names of men that settled here in 1836: Judge Inglish, John Hart, Mr. Gavelin, Mr. Merfill, Mr. Cliff, Mr. Logan, Mr. Heath, Mr. Quillen, Joe Swagaty, Joe Sowell, Thomas Journey, Mr. Westbrook, Willis Boon, Mr. Damron, Mr. Care. Alex Johnson brought the first dry goods to Bonham. He built a log house on the lot right opposite Mr. Wilson’s just north of the four oak trees that stand in the middle of the street now. Bob Inglish clerked for him. Robert then was a small boy.
Thus, I have given you some of the worst troubles we had in the early days. A. Rowlett. (A. Rowlett was a negro slave who came to Texas as a small boy, probably 12, in 1836. he was living in about 1904 when Charles Harrison visited in Texas and got a printed booklet with this story. Jessie Harrison lent it to me to copy. L.V. Pryor)
