Chinese descendants of one man

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | 1.5m Chinese 'descendants of one man': "Research into an unusually high prevalence of a particular set of genes in China has suggested that 1.5 million Chinese men are direct descendants of Giocangga, the grandfather of the founder of the Qing dynasty.

Giocangga's extraordinary number of descendants, concentrated mainly in north-east China and Mongolia, are thought to be a result of the many wives and concubines his offspring took.

Dr Chris Tyler-Smith, a geneticist working at Britain's Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, made the finding, based on a study of a set of genes on the male Y chromosome.

He told the BBC World Service's Science In Action programme that these genes provided a 'genetic surname' of the family to which each man belonged.

'What we did was analyse around 1,000 men from that part of the world,' he said.

'We noticed just two types of Y chromosome that were extraordinarily frequent - one of them making up around 3% of our sample.

'When we looked at it more carefully, we found that it was not present in the majority population in that area, the Han. But in the minorities, including the Mongolians, it was present at around 5%.

At the time of Giocangga, the population of China was about 100 million - compared with 1.3 billion today.

This means that the average Chinese man at the time of Giocangga would only have around 20 descendants living today - in marked contrast to Giocangga's 1.5 million men.

"The difference is accounted for by the large number of wives and concubines - and in particular, this practice being linked to the Y chromosome for many generations," Dr Tyler-Smith added
"
my thanks to Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

new Geneaology

Geneaology: The next generation | naplesnews.com | Naples Daily News: "Geneaology: The next generation

Newest site is part genealogy, part six degrees of separation

By EMILY STEEL, The Wall Street Journal

Friday, February 16, 2007

From the beginning, the Internet has attracted people seeking to research their family trees — and sites wanting to make money off their pursuits.

The Web’s search capabilities seemed custom-tailored for sorting through long-forgotten records that are now being dusted off and digitized. And hundreds of sites sprang up.

In practice, though, Web genealogy has led to a lot of frustrated consumers — the process has been expensive (most sites charge fairly steep subscription fees) and time-consuming.

Now, sites are aiming to eliminate some of those drawbacks. One new entrant — Geni.com, which was launched last month by a former PayPal executive — offers a new model, based on connecting living relatives free of charge.

The site is part genealogy, part six degrees of separation: Instead of paying a of paying a fee to research family records buried in archives, it asks users to build their own family trees — using the knowledge of living relatives — that eventually will merge into one giant family tree for the world.

That’s the hope anyway.

Geni.com is taking some of the elements of popular so-called social-networking and user-generated content sites such as Wikipedia and MySpace. It went live in mid-January and has registered more than 100,000 users since then.

It has done no traditional marketing yet, but blogs such as Digg (where users submit news stories) and Tech Crunch (which focuses on technology) have passed the word.

The site is free. Rather than charging fees, Geni plans to sell advertising and to generate revenue by creating “premium” accounts and selling products such as posters or coffee-table books of the family trees.

But Geni has already courted controversy — and raised privacy concerns.

"

Geni Jobs but no mail address

Is this the next cash cow ?

- do not trust them because there are no snail mail addresses.

WhoIs Search Results: "Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.

DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States"

	Private start-up
Founded	June 2006
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California, USA
Key people	David O. Sacks, founder and CEO previously the COO of PayPal until its acquisition by eBay. He produced the recent Hollywood movie, Thank You For Smoking. He was interviewed in a recent episode of Venture Voice. He attended Memphis University School in Memphis, Tennessee. http://www.venturevoice.com/2006/05/david_o_sacks.html#mor Alan Braverman, founder and CTO
Industry	Genealogy, Social networking services
Revenue	none
Slogan	everyone's related
Website	www.geni.com

Geni.com - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:


Genealogy is an idea that is easy to describe, but it can be difficult to understand completely. That's why we've spent the last six months building what we hope is the easiest and most accessible way to build a family tree. But there's more to a great experience than just the website; we want users to understand that Geni is all about keeping families connected. Geni is meant to be used by regular people and not just genealogy enthusiasts. Most of our users will probably be new to genealogy, and some will be new to the Internet. This is where you come in.


Geni Jobs

UNIX System Administrator

Make This Battlestation Fully Operational

Web Server: nginx/0.5.0

Geni seeks a Unix System Administrator to build, monitor, and maintain our production network and servers. This is a full-time position at our orbiting headquarters, somewhere above West Hollywood, CA.

HUGUENOTS

HUGUENOT is the name given to Protestants in France during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
The Lutheran form of Protestantism entered France about 1520 and soon met with opposition from the Catholics.

The work of John Calvin (1509-1564) greatly influenced and furthered the cause of French Protestantism which secured adherents chiefly from the middle class and the nobility.

As the Protestant movement gained in strength, opposition to it likewise increased until, toward the end of the reign of Francis I (1497-1547), the Huguenots were being severely persecuted. The Protestants developed their organization as they increased in numbers, holding their first synod in 1559, at which time they adopted a code based on the doctrines of Calvinism.

Persecution of the Huguenots as heretics increased under Henry II, who reigned from 1547 to 1559.
The members of the Guise family, which had grown in power during the reign of Francis I, were bitterly opposed to the Huguenots, whose cause was upheld by the powerful and influential Bourbons. Friction between the opposing factions increased until the first \civil war broke out in 1562, when the Guises seized the young king, Charles IX (1550-1574) and the Huguenots, under Prince de Conde and Admiral Colginy, took up arms against the Catholics.

A series of eight civil wars followed which lasted with intervals of peace, until the treaty of Vervins (q1598) brought the conflicts to an end. Queen-mother and regent for Cahrles IX, in her efforts to maintain herself in power, sometimes opposed and sometimes favored the cause of the Huguenots, depending upon what she considered at the time to be politically advantageous.

On August 24, 1572, thousands of Protestants were killed in the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, but this only served to strengthen the cause of the Huguenots. King Henry IV (1552-1610), whom the Protestants had supported for the throne, signed the Edict of Nantes (1598), which guaranteed the Huguenots religious and civil liberty."

Huguenots - Google Search

Huguenot genealogy - Google Search

tgn.com the new corporate URL

The Generations Network
site:tgn.com - Google Search

MyFamily.com, Inc.

MyFamily réunit la collection la plus vaste de services pour vous aider à découvrir vos racines, à documenter votre héritage et à compléter l'histoire de votre famille avec des membres de famille connus ou récemment découverts du monde entier.

Équipe de direction

Pour des requêtes d’entretien, veuillez contacter notre service de relations publiques.

Tim Sullivan
Président et directeur général exécutif

David H. Rinn
Directeur financier

Daren Thayne
Directeur technologie

Michael Graff
Vice-président, produits

Unternehmen - Übersicht

Profile des Management-Teams

MyFamily.com, Inc.

Mithilfe der umfassendsten Sammlung an Dienstleistungen hilft Ihnen MyFamily, Ihre Wurzeln zu entdecken, Ihr Erbe zu dokumentieren und Ihr Familienerbe mit bekannten und neu entdeckten Verwandten weltweit zu teilen.

next should be spanish look out Mexico City !

site:mx genealogia - Google Search

site:mx genealogica - Google Search

site:mx genealogy - Google Search

site:mx ancestry - Google Search

Bristol landlord and licencees

Bristol’s Lost Pubs: "
this web site is a record of Bristol’s pubs and publicans from the mid-eighteenth century up until the mid-twentieth century the information on these pages has been gleaned from trade directories and census returns.

Many thanks are given to all those who have contributed names, dates and pictures to this site. The photographs displayed on these pages are believed to be out of copyright, but if you know this not to be the case please let me know and the picture in question will be removed. I do hereby place into the public domain all original content displayed herein. Bristol’s Lost Pubs has no connection with any other web site."

news from London UK

Ancestry.co.uk - Learning Centre: "Get great hints and tips on how to start your family history research as well as how to get the most out of the Ancestry.co.uk website.

We’ll be continually adding new content, so be sure to bookmark this page for future return visits."

Ancestry.co.uk is sponsoring a brand new national history show
Who do you think you are?
LIVE at Olympia on 5-7 May 2007.
At the show, we aim to bring family history to life and so are looking for people to participate in our feature area at the show - Ancestry.co.uk LIVE.

Who Do You Think You Are? Live - Home: "Following its unprecedented success, the hugely popular TV series Who Do You Think You Are? is launching a national history show, giving more people than ever before the chance to learn about their heritage.

Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE, sponsored by Ancestry.co.uk, will be held on the bank holiday weekend from 5-7 May 2007 at the National Hall, Olympia, London,

Plus, the event will incorporate the Society of Genealogists Family History Show, sponsored by findmypast.com, to create the largest ever event of its kind.

You’ll have the chance to discover who your ancestors were and how they used to live with the help of the largest collection of TV historians, family history experts and celebrity enthusiasts than anywhere else.

See the likes of David Starkey, Dan Snow, Bettany Hughes, Saul David, Nick Barratt and Jonathan Foyle."

Visitors should note that this is not a BBC event.

Society of Genealogists - Family History Show: "Over the last three years, one TV show has captured the imagination of millions of viewers, turning the nation into history enthusiasts and amateur family historians. The hit BBC TV programme Who Do You Think You Are? has inspired a new generation to trace their ancestry to join those who are already well on their journey towards uncovering their personal heritage.

Following this unprecedented success and with a fourth series confirmed for 2007, Who Do You Think You Are? is launching a National History Show, giving more people than ever before the opportunity to learn about their heritage. This event will take place at the National Hall, Olympia, London on May bank holiday weekend, 5th – 7th May 2007. The Show is supported by the Daily Telegraph and Ancestry.co.uk."

Visitors to the Society of Genealogists’ Family History Show, sponsored by Findmypast.com, you should note that this will still be taking place but is now part of this exciting new event. This show is in its 15th year and continues to attract Family History Societies from all over the country plus all the experts you have been used to meeting there.

Prussian Nobility

from my email:-

adligen Familien Preussens
this kind of phrase in a foreign language is always worth remembering and giving a twirl in google

adligen Familien Preussens - Google Search

which took me to an important library catalogue in Warsaw, Poland.

Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau -- Kombinierte Suche

and a striking home page
German Historical Institute Warsaw - www.dhi.waw.pl
and
OTHER OPAKS links at German Historical Institute Warsaw - www.dhi.waw.pl

adding a fourth word to the google string
adligen Familien Preussens genealogia - Google Search
or
adligen Familien Preussens genealogy - Google Search

and amongst other good pages

Hauptseite - GenWiki:
"GenWiki ist ein Projekt des Vereins für Computergenealogie. Hier stellen Familienforscher Informationen rund um die Genealogie bereit.

Bereichern auch Sie das Projekt mit Ihrem Wissen:

Im Projekt SlownikGeo sollen die 14.785 Seiten eines polnischsprachigen, geografischen Lexikons des historischen Königreichs Polen übersetzt und für GOV, GenWiki und Hic Leones erschlossen werden.


Unsere Mitmach-Hilfe und die Mailingliste GenWiki-L erleichtern Ihnen den Einstieg."

City of Rotterdam - Digital Archives

Gemeentearchief Rotterdam - Digital Family Tree: "Welcome to the Digital Family Tree of the Rotterdam Municipal Archives. Using this service, you can search for possible ancestors who lived in Rotterdam, the formerly independent municipalities of Rotterdam, or the regional municipalities Bergschenhoek, Berkel and Rodenrijs, and Bleiswijk.


The Rotterdam Marriage Supplements 1812-1852 have recently become available for viewing in the Digital Family Tree. Click here for more information.

What data can be found from the periods 1573-1811 and 1811-1950? " . . .

Beheersraad Digitale Stamboom - Google Search

Noord-Hollands Archief :: English:
"The Noord-Hollands Archief collects, preserves and makes available the documentary heritage of the province of Noord-Holland, the Kennemerland region (in particular the municipalities of Aalsmeer, Bennebroek, Beverwijk, Bloemendaal, Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude, Heemskerk, Heemstede, Uitgeest, Uithoorn, Velsen and Zandvoort), and of the provincial capital Haarlem."

Emigration from Lippe to the USA

Auswanderung aus Lippe

Including a database with more
than 15.000 individuals from Lippe-Detmold who went to USA

With the key-word “emigration” most of the people associate the emigration to America in the 19th century.

In the years following 1820 about 60.000 people emigrated from Germany to America. The height has been after the failed revolution in Germany in 1848. In the years following 1850 up to 1 million people have gone overseas. Around 90% have travelled to the USA, others to Canada, Brazil and Australia.

Emigration from Lippe to the USA

A New WorldConnect Server

RootsWeb Newsroom » Blog Archive:

"We’re proud to announce a new addition to the RootsWeb family - a new WorldConnect server! Our old server was almost completely filled with the 400,000 trees and almost 480,000,000 names that you’ve uploaded over the years. The new server is both bigger and faster, so it should be ready to support our family tree needs for a long time. "

Try it out by searching and contributing trees at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com

We don’t anticipate problems, but it’s possible that WorldConnect may have slow spots or outages over the next couple of days as we complete the transition to the new server. If you notice a specific problem that isn’t addressed by a HelpDesk notification at http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com please report it on the HelpDesk with details on the problem you’re seeing and the name of the tree that you’re using.

see FAMILY TREES in the sidebar of this blog for some examples.

The Generations Network

The Generations Network and Kirtas Technologies Team Up To Digitize More Than 75 Million Historical Family Records: "Original information that links families to their heritage is being held captive between the covers of countless fragile books,' said Lotfi Belkhir, chief executive officer, Kirtas Technologies. 'By working with The Generations Network, we can ensure this information is not only safeguarded for centuries to come, but easily accessible and available to families and genealogists in any location.'

The Generation Network is using two of Kirtas' APT BookScan 2400s for non-destructive scanning. It captures close to 5,000 pages per hour. Ensuring the highest image quality, the APT BookScan 2400 incorporates two 16.6 megapixel digital SLR cameras, each dedicated to either left or right pages. The product ensures that books are opened at comfortable angles that are gentle to the spine and minimize page curvature. The Generations Network is also leveraging Kirtas' BookScan Editor ™ Software Suite for high quality optical character recognition which provides finished digitized images with metadata indexing.

'Some of the books we are archiving are insured for thousands of dollars and are so rare they cannot be touched with the human hand,' said Michael Daniels, director of Digital Preservation, The Generations Network. 'The robotic arm and advanced paper handling from the APT BooksScan 2400 provides the safes"

Obituary.com.au

Obituary.com.au: "Our obituary notices are currently posting approximately 80% of all obituary, death and funeral notices appearing in Australian newspapers. They are placed on this site each day, hours after they appear in newsprint. The notices for all Australia are being organised and will most likely be placed on line on 1 January 2007. Never before has this service been available. Not only is it comprehensive and easily available through a Google Sponsored Site, but it is completely free."

intended for shopping but useful for genealogists too

Genealogy Resources

Genealogy Resources: "(GenealogyResources.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for genealogy resources which are listed below. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.; Internet expert, author, keynote speaker, and consultant. His latest white papers include Searching the Internet, Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources, and Knowledge Discovery Resources 2007. All of his Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs and his white papers are available from WhitePapers.us.

His latest monthly column is available by clicking here. Subscribe to his free monthly Awareness Watch™ Newsletter. Learn more by clicking here. Free online streaming tutorial videos on searching the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.; available by clicking here. "

parish register Images

A very impressive project please contact Adrian Furminger <freereg.kent@btinternet.com>
to help with indexing

Cityark - Search Results: "Medway Ancestors is Medway Council's project to publish images of the original parish registers in its custody on the Medway Archives web site CityArk. The registers are held on deposit from the local parish churches and cover the Rochester Archdeaconry area, extending from Dartford and Gravesend in the west to Rainham in the east and focusing on the Medway Towns.

The project has been made possible by a grant of £49,500.00 by the Heritage Lottery Fund under the Your Heritage scheme. Below you will find links to the parish register images, arranged by parish in alphabetical order.
"

For customers lacking a copy of The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers please note several maps are published on CityArk to help you identify the relevant parish:

• Medway area (i.e. Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Hoo Peninsula or eastern end of Rochester Archdeaconry) area:
  click here
• Dartford, Gravesend and Cobham area, showing parishes at the western end of the Rochester Archdeaconry area:
  click here

[Note on Civil Registration marriage registers after 1 July 1837 and Medway Ancestors Following the publication on the HMSO web site (click here) of revised guidance on the copying of marriage registers the Medway Ancestors project has now been extended to include marriage registers from 1 July 1837 - 31 December 1953. Paragraph 3 confirms that the chief officer of a Diocesan Record Office is permitted to issue a marriage certificate. Paragraph 5 states The Marriage Act and the Parochial Registers and Records Measure permits [sic] the making of certified copies of marriage certificates and the copying of marriage registers [Borough Archivist's underlining] by those persons listed in paragraph 3 above and paragraph 6 includes as copying the placing of material on the internet. (Medway Archives is recognised by the Bishop of Rochester as the Diocesan Record Office for the Rochester Archdeaconry area and the parishes of Burham and Wouldham under the Measure and The Borough Archivist is de facto the chief officer also under the Measure.)]

File updated by Borough Archivist 14 August 2006

[Note on Civil Registration marriage registers after 1 July 1837 and Medway Ancestors Following the publication on the HMSO web site (click here) of revised guidance on the copying of marriage registers the Medway Ancestors project has now been extended to include marriage registers from 1 July 1837 - 31 December 1953. Paragraph 3 confirms that the chief officer of a Diocesan Record Office is permitted to issue a marriage certificate. Paragraph 5 states The Marriage Act and the Parochial Registers and Records Measure permits [sic] the making of certified copies of marriage certificates and the copying of marriage registers [Borough Archivist's underlining] by those persons listed in paragraph 3 above and paragraph 6 includes as copying the placing of material on the internet. (Medway Archives is recognised by the Bishop of Rochester as the Diocesan Record Office for the Rochester Archdeaconry area and the parishes of Burham and Wouldham under the Measure and The Borough Archivist is de facto the chief officer also under the Measure.)]

File updated by Borough Archivist 14 August 2006

Caveat and disclaimer.

Customers wishing to reproduce, print-off, download or publish images from this database or imagebase may require the permission of the owner of the Copyright of the original records. Publication by Medway Council of this database or imagebase does not imply a right on the part of the user to reproduce, print-off, download or publish the images or absolve the user from the need to obtain permission to reproduce items subject to Copyright. Medway Council has obtained permission from Copyright owners to reproduce images in this database or imagebase without prejudice to wider Copyright. Strictly no commercial or organisational reproduction, printing-off, downloading or publication of the images in this imagebase may be undertaken without the prior consent of Medway Council or the owner of the Copyright of the original records. No separate or independent databases or imagebases derived from this imagebase may be created for organisational or commercial purposes without the express permission of Medway Council or the Copyright owners. Where downloading of images is permissible it may only be done for reasons of private study. Private study is defined by the Patent Office and the definition is incorporated in the relevant legislation.

Information on non-commercial research: "

It is allowed to make single copies or take short extracts of works when used for research that you do not make any money from or from private studying, educational course or even as a hobby.

Limited use or fair dealing is only permitted for non-commercial research and private study when using literary (written work), dramatic (theatre), music, artistic work (art, photographs, and so on) or the layout of a publication (the font size, font style, and so on).

The purpose of this exception is to provide students and non-commercial researchers more access to copyright works. In assessing whether your use of the work is permitted or not you must assess if there is any financial impact on the copyright owner because of your use; where impact is not significant, the use may be acceptable. Therefore, it is fair dealing.

If your use is for non-commercial research and/or private study you must ensure that the work you reproduce is supported by a sufficient acknowledgment."

Copying of Certificates in the UK

Copying of Birth, Death, Marriage and Civil Partnership Certificates and Marriage Registers: "5. The form of public registers and certificates are Crown copyright protected under section 163 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 so registers and certificates may not lawfully be reproduced without prior written consent. The Marriage Act and the Parochial Registers and Records Measure permits the making of certified copies of marriage certificates and the copying of the marriage registers by those persons listed in paragraph 3 above.
Definition of copying

6. For the purposes of this guidance, the term copying includes:

* Photocopying;
* Scanning;
* Filming;
* Reproduction in any other medium, including the placing of material on the Internet.

Forms of certificates as they appear in Regulations

7. The forms of certificates as prescribed in legislation may be copied provided that such copying:

a) is in accordance with guidance issued by HMSO on the reproduction of legislation; and

b) that no attempts are made to pass off such copies as official certificates or copies of official certificates.
Completed certificates

8. Government policy is not to authorise the copying of completed certificates except in the following circumstances:

a) by government departments and local government for the purposes of public administration;

b) by individuals or organisations for their own record keeping purposes, provided that the copies are not passed to others as evidence of birth, death or marriage;

c) within the context of judicial proceedings;

d) within works of genealogical research undertaken by or on behalf of the family concerned where the work in question will be given limited distribution only. For the avoidance of doubt, a work will NOT be regarded as being given limited distribution if it is placed on the Internet;

e) subject to prior formal written permission being granted by HMSO’s Licensing Division, for use within biographies or autobiographies or within academic, educational or historical works not covered by paragraph 8 (d).

f) by the transcribing and copying of the information contained in a certificate. The copyright does not subsist in the information on the certificate, but in the presentation of the information.

Other legal restrictions

9. The copying of certificates that contain personal details, and the use of information taken from such certificates, may, in addition, be subject to:

a) the need for any public body to operate within its statutory powers (the delegated powers rule); and

b) further legal protection for an individual’s rights to be afforded under the Human Rights Act 1998.

c) the Data Protection Act 1998.

Care should be taken to ensure that the above conditions are complied with.

Copying of birth, death, marriage and civil partnership certificates and marriage registers

5. The form of public registers and certificates are Crown copyright protected under section 163 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 so registers and certificates may not lawfully be reproduced without prior written consent. The Marriage Act and the Parochial Registers and Records Measure permits the making of certified copies of marriage certificates and the copying of the marriage registers by those persons listed in paragraph 3 above.

Definition of copying

6. For the purposes of this guidance, the term copying includes:

• Photocopying;
• Scanning;
• Filming;
• Reproduction in any other medium, including the placing of material on the Internet.

"NOTE THE DATA IS NOT COPYRIGHT BUT PRIVACY MUST BE RESPECTED

Immigration Records Center

Ancestry.com - Immigration Records Center:

"We are all descended from immigrants. Whether they came to America in prehistoric times via the Bering Strait or later on ships, or airplanes, at some point in history, every person's ancestors came from somewhere else. Every American hoping to link generations and reach back in time will ultimately be faced with immigration questions

Fortunately in modern times, we can find answers within the pages of immigration records. The origins of most immigrants are documented in a wide variety of these sources."

And in UK migration from the villages to the industrial cities and the colonies or escaping from a troubled Europe in times of persecution, famine or war.