Het jy voortydig grys geword?

Oud-joernalis, Joe van Buuren, skryf in die webjoernaal, K’rant: “Ek het in my twintigerjare erg grys begin word, en ek is gou laat verstaan dat dit aan 'n genetiese afwyking te wyte is. Hmm?”

Die verband tussen die geskiedenis en genealogie

Van Greenwood sê in The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy, dat "if you can understand the forces which shaped men's lives then you can better understand those men." Thomas Carlyle het raakgevat toe hy gesê het: “History is the essence of innumerable biographies.”

New studies about “junk DNA”

[Reprinted from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter. Click here HERE to subscribe - Ed.]

The DNA chromosomes used by genealogy tracking have been referred to as "junk DNA." 

A sticky wicket?

Roberta Estes

[The following posting recently appeared in SA Genealogie. If you have not yet visited this outstanding website, click HERE to find out how to access a valuable source of genealogical information. 

Click HERE and HERE to read previous postings in Jaarringe dealing with the use of DNA to trace ancestry  - Ed.] 

I've been thinking about whether or not I should publish this posting. As I write and rewrite it, I still haven't made up my mind. It's one of those sticky wickets, as they are called. 

Die Van Wyks se voorgeskiedenis

Diek van Wyk 

Lynette Francis het op Maandag 6 Augustus in haar program Praat Saam met twee genetici gepraat waarin hulle dit onder andere gehad het oor die maniere waarop vasgestel kan word hoe iemand se genotipiese afkoms tot by die wieg van die mensdom bepaal kan word. Toevallig is my afkoms so bepaal. In hierdie hoofstuk uit my boek wat ek vir my kinders geskryf het, vertel ek, effens aangepas, daarvan. 

(Lees ook Using DNA to trace ancestry. Klik hier om toegang te verkry - Redaksie)

Using DNA to trace ancestry

Because the chromosomes mothers and fathers pass on to their children are reshuffled versions of the ones they inherited from their own parents, it is hard to use most chromosomes to trace genealogy back very far. Most of the Y chromosome, however, is handed down from father to son without changes. Likewise, in humans, the tiny bit of DNA contained in an unusual package of genetic material known as mitochondrial DNA is passed down from mother to child without any recombination. For this reason, these types of DNA can be used to trace your ancestry. 

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