by Jennifer Zinck | 15 March 2015 | General
Happy Birthday to the man who taught me to read a newspaper, spell the 500 most commonly misspelled words, and who could beat me at a math problem every time, even though he’d give me a calculator while he did his math with his fingers in the air. Franklin Dolan...
by Jennifer Zinck | 12 March 2015 | DNA, General, Genetic Genealogy
On August 31, 2011, I joined the R-DF21 and Subclades Project at Family Tree DNA with a kit I manage that represents my maternal grandfather’s Y-DNA, or direct male line. My grandfather’s favorite day was St. Patrick’s Day, and also the day that he...
by Jennifer Zinck | 23 February 2015 | General
The 13th New England Regional Genealogical Conference Navigating the Past: Sailing into the Future will be held in Providence, Rhode Island on 15-18 April 2015. The conference will include more than 90 lectures by speakers including Judy G. Russell, Lisa Louise Cooke,...
by Jennifer Zinck | 12 October 2014 | DNA, General, Genetic Genealogy
I had to make a choice to get this out now and messy or later and edited… I think most people want it NOW so please don’t mind the typos. These are basically raw notes with no proofreading. Dr. Michael Hammer presented Ancient and Modern DNA Update: How...
by Jennifer Zinck | 12 October 2014 | General
Katherine Borges opened the day with the International Society of Genetic Genealogy meeting. Katherine shared about the founding of ISOGG and its mission. In 2002, the Y-Chromosome Consortium wanted to come up with a standardization for the Y tree. ISOGG later began...
by Jennifer Zinck | 12 October 2014 | Conferences, DNA, General, Genetic Genealogy
Family Tree DNA kicked off its Decennial Conference on Genetic Genealogy at the Hyatt North Houston in Houston, Texas. Max Blankenfeld welcomed the crowd of more than 180 group administrators and acknowledged those who had been to all ten conferences as well...
