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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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Ancestry Explained
Good morning preservers of the family legacy,
A lot of times folks ask us how to preserve their family heirlooms. Of course, our first advice is to capture a digital record of the heirloom and let’s then put that picture into Your Dancestors ancestry book, so you have it stored somewhere else. Here’s some advice from an insurance company:
https://www.farmers.com/learn/plan-and-prep/ideas-for-protecting-heirlooms/
Some updates on the use of DNA to solve crimes:
Police were cracking cold cases with a DNA website. Then the fine print changed.
“There are cases that won’t get solved or will take longer to solve,” a Florida law enforcement official said.
https://apple.news/
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/genetic-genealogy-dna-database-criminal-investigations/
While being the family historian...
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 07:02h
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Ancestry Explained
All,
As successful people, one of your responsibilities is to not let your families pictures, stories, and historical documents be lost forever. You have the means to preserve those legacies forever in print and electronically.
Don’t leave your legacy as a burden to your heirs. That’s often the missing piece to your estate planning efforts. You come up with a great plan for a distribution of your tangible assets, but does nothing for your intangible assets, your character, your families legacy. When you think about your ancestors do you think about how they left money or such they left to so and...
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...
Posted at 10:52h
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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”....
Posted at 02:41h
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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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Posted at 06:49h
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Ancestry Explained
Good morning fellow descendants,
Many of my clients have grown up with stories of their Native American ancestry, only to be disappointed when it doesn't show up in their DNA.
Here's why that may happen. Do you have a sibling? Do they look more like your mom or dad than you do? That's because unless your identical twins you have differing percentages of your parents DNA in your blood.
Here's an example of how your Native American DNA could persevere or disappear through just 5 generations and 150 years:
Great-Great-Great Grandpa was 100% Native American.
He has two boys (gender doesn't matter, just...
