RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Family Tree DNA's "DNA Day" One Day Sale

2011-04-15 Thread Sam Koester
Cheri; Thanks much for this great explanation, one that I will save for future reference. I guess the DNA I sent in is a few years old now which if FT is saving the stuff for 25 years, I guess isn't old at all! My brother is 70 and surviving his 3rd bout with prostate cancer with his white cell

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Family Tree DNA's "DNA Day" One Day Sale

2011-04-15 Thread Cheri Mello
Hi Sam (and others who are interested), The Deep Clade refines the DNA further on the tree of mankind. It's interesting anthropology wise, but no so from genealogy wise perspective. So if someone is R1b1a2, they can be refined to R1b1a2a1a1b4. When someone logs into their page, they can see wher

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Family Tree DNA's "DNA Day" One Day Sale

2011-04-15 Thread Sam Koester
Cheri; I'm looking for some knowledge and perhaps advice here. Can you look at my FTDNA tests and tell me if it would be more beneficial for me, genealogically wise, to order a Deep Clad test or the 111 upgrade. I'm thinking since they haven't found any matches above the one at the 25 marker lev

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] The good old days at the Oakland, California Family Hi...

2011-04-15 Thread "E" Sharp
I use to go to Sacramento FHC. I have not been in a couple of years. I noticed they had changed their room around the last time I was there. I was at the Sunnyvale Library recently and they had a great reader and I believe it was fairly new. I was looking for an obit in the newspaper. At first,

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] The good old days at the Oakland, California Family Hi...

2011-04-15 Thread Emacadi
As of Wednesday, all the old wonderful readers...4 of them are gone to the heaven of 16mm readers. I tried the one remaing (the one without the sign OUT OF ORDER). I could get it more or less to work - if I stood up and moved the reel along with that turn thing. I had to stand up to read

[AZORES-Genealogy] Family Tree DNA's "DNA Day" One Day Sale

2011-04-15 Thread Cheri Mello
Did you know that April 15th is DNA Day? April 15 commemorates the completion of the Human Genome Project in April 2003. In honor of this, Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) is having a one day sale from 12 noon April 14th to April 15th at 11:59pm CDT. They didn't announce it to the admins, they posted it