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GENEALOGIST- BLACKSTONE BEATS GENETIC PRIVACY LAWSUIT
Some folks were upset about or did not know that Blackstone had purchased Ancestry.com back in 2020, and sued, but the suit was dismissed, see the link: https://www.kirkland.com/news/in-the-news/2023/05/calling-lawsuit-bare-bones-7th-circuit-rejects-genetic-privacy-claims-over-ancestry-com-acquisition
However, it's not like Blackstone bought it from a bunch of genealogists. It was previously owned by at least four other private equity firms (see below), Were they good stewards of all of those DNA tests?
New York, December 4, 2020 – Blackstone (NYSE:BX) today announced that private equity funds managed by Blackstone (“Blackstone”) have completed their previously announced acquisition of Ancestry® from Silver Lake, GIC, Spectrum Equity, Permira,...
GENEALOGY- MORE ABOUT DARIEN- GEORGIA THAT IS, AND THE SCOTSMEN'S ATTEMPTS TO PROHIBIT SLAVERY, AND LETTING DAUGHTERS INHERIT LAND
The British built Fort King George in 1721 (see picture), near what would become Darien. At the time, it was the southernmost outpost of the British Empire in North America. The fort was abandoned in 1727 following attacks from the Spanish. Its remains constitute the oldest fort on the Georgia coast.
The town of Darien (originally known as "New Inverness") was founded in January 1736 by Scottish Highlanders (some found in your genealogy) recruited by James Oglethorpe to act as settler-soldiers protecting the...
ANCESTORS- DARIEN GAP HAS BEEN IN THE NEWS LATELY
We all know Teddy Roosevelt led the building of the Panama Canal. However, I bet you didn't know that his Great-Great Grandfather had been there 200 years earlier as part of the Darien Scheme. Teddy may have wondered where are my ancestors from?
The Darien scheme was an unsuccessful attempt, backed largely by investors of the Kingdom of Scotland, to gain wealth and influence by establishing New Caledonia, a colony in the Darién Gap on the Isthmus of Panama, in the late 1690s. The plan was for the colony, located on the Gulf...
GENEALOGY IS FUN- YOU CAN HELP WITH THE INVESTIGATION OF THE JFK ASSASSINATION
President John F. Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963. Nearly 30 years after his death, Congress enacted the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. The Act mandated that all assassination-related material be housed in a single collection in the National Archives and Records Administration.
The resulting Collection consists of more than 5 million pages of assassination-related records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts (approximately 2,000 cubic feet of records).
Most of the records from the JFK Assassination Records Collection are open for research, and...
FAMILY HISTORY- THE INTER-CONTINENTAL TRAIN FROM PARIS TO NEW YORK WILL FINALLY PUT FORT NELSON ON THE MAP!
Snowpiercer is a fictional train, its 1,001 cars carrying humanity’s last survivors as it endlessly loops a frozen Earth. Shown on this map, the InterContinental Railway (ICR for short) doesn’t quite go all the way around — but then again, it isn’t entirely as fictional.
The Snowpiercer movie and series were based on Le Transperceneige, a French graphic novel from 1982. On the other hand, the ICR is being proposed by engineers and entrepreneurs who believe it can and should become a reality.
You can...
LEGACY A NEW HANGOUT FOR GENEALOGISTS?
A million bodies are buried here. So now It’s becoming a park.
Hart Island, a potter’s field where part of New York City's legacy is that they have buried its unclaimed dead for over a century, will finally accept visitors this year.
Hart Island is located at the western end of Long Island Sound, in the northeastern Bronx in New York City. Measuring approximately 1 mile long by 0.33 miles (0.53 km) wide, Hart Island is part of the Pelham Islands archipelago east of City Island.
The island has been used as a:
• training ground for the United...
HOW PURE WERE THOSE PURITANS? As we have covered in other stories, there was plenty of impure behavior. You can read about it in the links below.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-11-28-0211280291-story.html
https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/When-those-Puritans-weren-t-so-very-pure-2745842.php
If you would like to know if your Puritan ancestors made the naughty or nice list reach out to Dancestors by clicking on the red button below, reach out to Dancestors Genealogy @ 214-914-3598, or and let us preserve your legacy.
HOW LONG HAVE BLACK FRIDAY SALES BEEN AROUND?
The ads above and below come from the 1880's much earlier than most sources give for the origination of the term.
WHEN WAS THE FIRST THANKSGIVING RECORDED...
Do you want to find out if your ancestry is frightening? We can find out which part of Transylvania your ancestors came from. Click on the red button below, reach out to Dancestors Genealogy @ 214-914-3598, or and let us preserve your legacy.
Days of the Dead is by far the favorite holiday amongst those in the grave!
Read our blog on Days of the Dead;
https://dancestorsgenealogy.com/explained/days-of-the-dead/
Here is the oldest article I could find referencing Halloween. The article appeared in a London paper in 1799 and referred to a new splendid Scotch spectacle, the New Royal Circus, and Mrs. Ratcliff's celebrated Highland...
It's All Relative
Having researched thousands of families over the years, we at Dancestors have collated all this research & narrative material into a single database containing over 2.5 million words, and is over 4,000 pages!
Likely, we've already researched much of YOUR family in the process!
You see, back in 1630 there were only about 4,000 people in America so if you exclude folks that didn't have descendants, and use the average household size, that's only 40 or so families at the time. Are you related to one of those? Likely!
Of course, each decade the population grew tremendously.
In finding YOUR legacy, our...
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Can DNA Predict Fishing?
I find it most amazing when I am able through DNA and investigation to find someone's birth parents to see how their ancestor's...
