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(+) Preserving Old Documents Electronically
Everyone is Descended from Millions, make that Billions, of Ancestors
23andMe seeks FDA Approval for Personal DNA Test
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(+) Preserving Old Documents Electronically

The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.

Old documents often are fragile. Simply handling them can damage the documents or speed their deterioration; so, one must avoid frequent handling. This can be difficult in the case of family heirlooms since many people may want to see them. Equally challenging is the difficulty of sharing those old documents with people who cannot easily travel to the location where the documents and photographs are stored....

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Everyone is Descended from Millions, make that Billions, of Ancestors

The New York Times recently published a story about about President Obama's likely descent from the first recorded slave in the North American colonies. The keyword here is "likely." The claim is lacking definitive proof and simply says, "evidence strongly suggests." In fact, this isn't news. If you go back enough years, everyone is descended from most everyone.

After all, you have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great-grandparents, and so on in...

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23andMe seeks FDA Approval for Personal DNA Test

This could cause major changes in the acceptance of DNA testing for genealogy as well as for many other purposes. 23andMe is asking the Food and Drug Administration to approve its personalized DNA test in a move that, if successful, could boost acceptance of technology that is viewed skeptically by leading scientists who question its usefulness.