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“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” Thomas Carlyle

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When I was an ambitious, eager and most importantly, energetic graduate student, I read Thomas Carlyle’s many works.  I had…

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Fun fact!

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Did you know the last tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, was maybe 1/16th Russian?  Due to the foreign alliances, his…

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Genetic Genealogy

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This is the title for our Brown Bag lunch in February. Not only has genetic testing become a tool for…

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Brown Bag lunch

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The Brown Bag lunch will resume Wednesday, February 6, 2019.  The topic will be DNA testing–the various tests, what to…

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Fun fact: 1 in 200 men are direct descendants of Genghis Khan.

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Now that I have your attention, this was published in an article in 2003 and I had read about it. …

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Genetealogy

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It is the holiday season and that means family gatherings. Family stories are exchanged and family members are remembered. For…

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Fun fact

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I just read in an historical fiction novel about the Great Stink of 1858 in London. This occurred in the…

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Just some interesting tidbits

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Did you know that in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, dentures were made from the teeth of executed…

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