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It not for you are I to choose

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It’s not for us to choose by Judy G. Russell | Jun 24, 2018 When the DNA results are not what was expected… The question came in again this past week, as it has so many times in recent years. A genealogist had asked others in the family to test to further the genealogist’s own

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User Comment June 9, 2018

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Sandra Bailey via wpdatacenter.com  Jun 9, 2018, 6:21 PM to me   Name: Sandra Bailey Email: slbailey16 Website: Comment: Recently received my ancestry DNA results, and now I’m totally hooked! On one of Henry Louis Gates programs, recently, he used the results from mtDNA to locate exactly where, Oprah, Chris Tucker and a few others originated. I would love to find

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Book Discussion Group: “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome”

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Book Discussion Group: “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome”The spring 2018 book discussion group is reading Dr. Joy DeGruy’s 2005 book, “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury & Healing.”Saturday, June 16 | 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.  Tanner Community Development Corporation, 2nd floor 700 E. Jefferson St. | Phoenix, AZ 85034 The June session will focus on black male/female relationships

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Native American’s are apart of our history

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Donna Koch Multi-Ethnic Virginia and Carolina History posted June 9 14hrs I was researching somewhere else and this is a partial response I received. Is this true? ” Native Americans no matter what Tribe they belong to would not be on a US Census until after 1924 when they were allowed to be US citizens.

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1880 Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Schedules

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Genealogy resource rarely used in ancestry research 1880 Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Schedules The 1880 census is the mother lode of questions pertaining to physical condition, criminal status, and poverty. In addition to the basic questions on the population schedule, additional questions were posed in the ‘Supplemental Schedules for the Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes’,

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MyHeritage Cybersecurity Incident

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Accessed: June 6, 2018, My Heritage Blog MyHeritage Statement About a Cybersecurity Incident By Admin · June 4, 2018 Today, June 4, 2018 at approximately 1pm EST, MyHeritage’s Chief Information Security Officer received a message from a security researcher that he had found a file named myheritage containing email addresses and hashed passwords, on a private

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