After I knock down that infamous 1870 brick wall with a formerly enslaved ancestor, my search is not over. I am always looking for additional documentation to add to the body of knowledge about an ancestor. The more documentation I find, the fuller the picture in ascertaining their lives and experiences. I documented my paternal …
Picture Source Everyone has 23 pairs of chromosomes. One chromosome in each pair was inherited from the mother and the other chromosome was inherited from the father. Below is a snapshot of my mother’s paternal chromosome 2 in DNAPainter.com, a web-based tool for chromosome mapping – the process of labeling/assigning your chromosome segments to specific …