Book Corner
Ebenezer Hall and Mantincus Island
Saturday, July 31st, 2010Dear Visitors: In honor of having recently connected through the miracle of DNA research with another cousin who is a descendant of the Halls of Maine I am dipping into my archives and posting this excerpt from Gems of the Ocean which relays an old version of the story of Ebenezer Hall of Mantinicus Island. [...]
Tracing mtDNA: The Seven Daughters of Eve
Monday, March 1st, 2010While the extraordinary book The Seven Daughters of Eve by Oxford University professor of genetics Bryan Sykes was published ten years ago, it has just recently come to my attention. I suppose it was inevitable, or at least organic that when I found, at last, an exact 37 marker DNA match to my father, proving [...]