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Genetic Genealogy in 2020 and beyond

Roberta Estes, in her blog DNA Explained, has written an excellent overview of the current state of DNA testing in genealogy, discussing companies, products, present and potential. If you have done DNA testing to support your genealogy or are considering it, this should be considered a must read. She includes many links to supporting documents, this is a wonderful overview. Just click on the link below.

https://dna-explained.com/2019/12/31/2019-the-year-and-decade-of-change/

Have a great 2020! (Sometimes that number seems like sci-fi to me.)

Enjoy the search and save the world! Happy New Decade 🙂

Jim Robeson

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Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough

The BBC set up an Skype interview between Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough.

It was late December, 2019.  She was 16, he was 93. You can hear the respect each has for the other. This isn’t a super bang speech, instead it is just interesting to listen to two of the most influential people of our time “saying hello”.

Click the link for an 8 minute listen: Greta and Attenborough.m4a
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Greta’s father was interviewed by BBC the same day.

Click the link for about 9 minutes: Gretas Father.m4a


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Larry Page steps down; Sundar Pichai to lead both Alphabet, Google as CEO

Omg, the inventors of Google are retiring! ! The stock market should crash, temporarily, out of respect. Who knows what may come to pass now? Save the date, for the future will remember this as the beginning of the next epoch.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/larry-page-steps-down-at-alphabet-sundar-pichai-to-lead-both-alphabet-google-as-ceo-213715829.html

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In Dog Years

Now, a team of researchers – led by Professor Trey Ideker, a geneticist at the University of California, San Diego – has developed a more accurate method of calculating a dog’s age and translating it to human years.

it is easier to see it in a table