Exploring Guardianship Records with Enslaved Ancestral Research

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 …

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Chromosome Data Matters: Exploring Ewe Connections from Ghana

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 …

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