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- Tue Aug 25, 2015 12:13 pm
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: Early map with Indian Lands and Explorer routes
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Early map with Indian Lands and Explorer routes
I happened to find this map framed in abt 2x4 size at a Tuesday Morning store a few years ago. I found the digital version here, before 1726. It also shows De Soro route Creator: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726 Title: Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi / dressée sur un grand nombre de m...
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 11:36 am
- Forum: Jewish
- Topic: Jewish Surname index
- Replies: 20
- Views: 98012
Jewish Surname index
http://www.avotaynu.com/csi/csi-home.html
Consolidated Jewish Surname Index (CJSI). CJSI is your gateway to information about 699,084 surnames, mostly Jewish, that appear in 42 Different Databases
Consolidated Jewish Surname Index (CJSI). CJSI is your gateway to information about 699,084 surnames, mostly Jewish, that appear in 42 Different Databases
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:53 am
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: Guatemalan Mestizo
- Replies: 8
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Re: Guatemalan Mestizo
Raven, If you want to look closer in the study start reading page seven, there is a chart of all the results, including European R1b, Atlantic Modal, common to Iberia and Ireland, Basque. The Ladino portion is probably your Puerta Rican matches. The gene flow between, north South America like Venazu...
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:32 am
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: Guatemalan Mestizo
- Replies: 8
- Views: 24995
Re: Guatemalan Mestizo
Söchtig et al. BMC Genomics (2015) 16:131 Page 3 of 17 ts. Already in 1690, the chronicler Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán described the ‘Ladinos’ as ‘mestizos, mulatos and negros’. There is extensive historical docu- mentation indicating trend in Guatemala to marriages between different ethni...
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 12:53 pm
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: Guatemalan Mestizo
- Replies: 8
- Views: 24995
Re: Guatemalan Mestizo
Interesting note in article there is a relationship to Carribbean tribes, there isn't much contact with that region. Analysis of uniparental DNA markers (especially mito- chondrial DNA [mtDNA] variation) and autosomal DNA markers has been widely used to explore demographic patterns throughout the Am...
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 11:46 am
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: John Swanton online books
- Replies: 0
- Views: 39830
John Swanton online books
the Indian tribes of North America full book. http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/the-indian-tribes-of-north-america.htm You might need a member institution login, but the list is a great resource. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Swanton%2C%20John%20Reed%2C%201873-1...
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 11:38 am
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: American Indian Linguistics Map
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- Views: 39798
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:59 am
- Forum: Romani
- Topic: American Roma Surnames
- Replies: 3
- Views: 26244
American Roma Surnames
Well, I didn't know wher to find my Roma but according to this list, which also contains Melungeon surnames I have many, some of which are my hardest to research from my fathers families, though a few go into my maternal grandmothers, Adams, James,Green, , Johnson, Cox, Pierce, father. GM Cox, Turne...
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:44 am
- Forum: Romani
- Topic: The Never-ending Road American Roma (Gypsy ), Travellers, & "Others" Early Native American Indian Remnants & Other SC
- Replies: 0
- Views: 18660
The Never-ending Road American Roma (Gypsy ), Travellers, & "Others" Early Native American Indian Remnants & Other SC
I have always found this interesting site. I don't know where my Roma comes from, but great clues are here, German, Irish, Scottish, and Melungeon. http://sciway3.net/clark/freemoors/index.html We have more ethnic diversity from the Colonial Era than you may have realized. There were Roma, or Gypsi...
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:22 am
- Forum: Melungeon
- Topic: Family search resource
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6575
Family search resource
I was surprised to find family search had this wiki online. They have been digitizing more and more. You can volunteer to help. I find this list they have gathered though by far nt completely up to date with the research but I find the last two websites I posted. https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/...