ends Aug 15. The typical ancestry.com test is autosomal, looking at a number of areas. Helps if you can build even a rudimentary tree, which would entail a membership (you can choose several levels of access, starting with US-only for US residents.)
ancestry.com is having a pretty good sale on its dna tests…
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For those who are interested in further DNA testing, Family Tree DNA is also have in a major sale until the end of August. This includes their y-DNA (paternal), mt-DNA (maternal) and Family Finder (autosomal DNA) kits. By chance, is this Genealogy Month?
I got the $50 deal from 23andme for myself, my daughter, and my aunt. Waiting for the results now!
The day my mother died (just shy of two weeks ago) two of my sisters sent in an ancestry.com kit. (The nursing staff tried to stop them; it would have been funny if it hadn’t been . . . not.)
So we’re waiting for that result. We’re 99% percent sure all of the siblings are the children of my parents (I have a secret doubt about youngest, deceased one, but who cares) My mother had at least two “secret” cousins, and maybe more, part of why we wanted this info.
Condolences on the loss of your mother, WoW. The past few weeks have brought loss of loved ones to too many people I know. I’m sorry your family is one of them too.
Life-relationships are more important than DNA relationships, but DNA can lead you to interesting people and places. There are a few of mine I am absolutely appalled to be related to—but they’re all part of the fabric.
Appalling relatives; we all have them. There but for the grace of God go we all. I keep telling myself that sins can be forgiven, but kind deeds are eternal.
BTW, I’m still handling switching computers. Microsoft Works SE saves documents as .wps. Word 2016 saves them as .doc, so I have to copy each document to Wordpad move it to the new computer and copy it to this version of Word. How annoying!
As a memorial to my annoyance, I present you with one of my poems.
LONELY IS THE NIGHT
T. A. Murotake
Lonely is the night
Without you in it.
I lie beside you
Skin to skin,
But the warmth is distant.
I hear the sounds of breath;
I feel its moisture.
A desert hangs between us.
I feel the pressure of your eyes,
Yet remain unseen.
I speak in measured words,
In careful tones;
I remain unheard.
I reach to touch you.
I feel your flesh
And cannot sense your soul.
Where have you gone, beloved?
Is it I who have melted away?
Are the bridges gone,
Or just in disrepair?
Though we touch and love
The sword lies drawn between us.
Lonely is the night,
Without you in it.
Beautiful, Tommie.
Thanks. It hurt to write, and it echos with that selfsame hurt to read even 30 years later; but still I want to keep it. I’ll have to discuss with myself why I want to do that.
To remind myself that such things are survivable, I think.
Good for you, Tommie, having the inner strength and resilience to deal with that in this way.