It just wouldn't feel like the SuperBowl without genealogy.
It just wouldn’t feel like the SuperBowl without genealogy.
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“The previously staid world of genealogy is in the midst of a controversial revolution.
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"The previously staid world of genealogy is in the midst of a controversial revolution.
“The Likelihood of having an Ancestor with an Identity Different than One’s Own Increases (Nearly)…
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"The Likelihood of having an Ancestor with an Identity Different than One's Own Increases (Nearly)...
Melungeons
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The Melungeons are a tri-racial group, descended from Europeans, Africans, and Indians. Although the term Melungeon refers to a specific group, it has become a generic label for many similar groups: the Carmel Indians of southern Ohio, the Brown People of Kentucky, the Guineas of West Virginia, the We-Sorts of Maryland, the Nanticoke-Moors of Delaware, the Cubans and Portuguese of North Carolina...
Women’s Name Changes
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Some months ago I promised to find and post this quote about the practice in the Middle Ages of sometimes changing the given name of a wife. It wasn’t widespread, but it happened often enough to be worth noticing: “The wife was sometimes so completely absorbed into the family of the one man who had the right to give her children that her own Christian name was changed. (At that time...