A genealogical journal
An article in The Atlantic caught my attention. We’re going ’round again with conversos and crypto-Jews, and once again the fantasy is just as stronger or stronger than the proved reality. In 1492 Ferdinand and Isabella ordered all Jews in Spain to convert to Catholicism or leave the kingdom. Those who converted became known as…
This looks interesting. It also looks obvious. (So why didn’t I think of it myself?) “Unsure of how other people were sorting their Shared Matches from AncestryDNA, I developed my own method: the Leeds Method of DNA Color Clustering. This simple and quick method helps you easily visualize how your close cousins are related to…
Some of my friends think Human Biodiversity is just alt.right propaganda. Others, equally liberal and progressive, think it’s a breath of fresh air in a field overburdened with political correctness. Me, I’m an agnostic. As I often remind people, I didn’t get the True Believer Gene. With that out of the way, Jayman has what…
One of these days I need to take some time to write about calculating relationships between two people based on the amount of DNA they share. It seems like such a simple thing, but nothing is simple if no one has ever explained it to you. I run into a lot of people who just…
DNA research is exploding established history everywhere we look. When I was growing up, everyone assumed that modern humans moved into Europe from the Middle East, spread out, and stayed. So, for us, history was pretty much invasions where different peoples took over new land, and (probably) exterminated or enslaved everyone who lived there before….