Genealogy Quotes #4

"Why waste your money looking 

up your family tree?

Just go into politics, and your opponents 

will do it for you."

-Mark Twain-

Michigan Islands #2

Have you ever been to any of these islands? 
Do you have ancestors who lived on any of these Islands?

South Manitou Island

All photos found on google images

North Manitou Island

found on Wikipedia

Lake Michigan Islands

The islands in the Beaver Island archipelago include, in rough order of size:

• Beaver Island
• Garden Island
• High Island
• South Fox Island
• Hog Island
• North Fox Island
• Gull Island
• Whiskey Island
• Squaw Island
• Trout Island
• Grape Island
• Hat Island
• Shoe Island
• Pismire Island

Washington Island part of Wisconsin

Genealogy Quotes series #3

“These stories will probably be like a large ball of string: made up of many small strings too short to use and too long to throw away.”  

-Vera Mae Slone-

Genealogy Quotes series#2

"In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage - to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness and the most disquieting loneliness."

-- Alex Haley

Genealogy Quotes series

"She calls to me from long ago; through sunlit skies; through drifts of snow. In clouds that dance upon the sea, I call to her, and she to me. 

So real was she. She laughed; she cried. She loved; she lost. She lived; she died. She hoped and dreamed; so real was she. She lived a life that I may be. 

The blood through which my veins does flow is the same as her's from long ago. So it will be that when I'm gone in an unborn child it will flow on. 

I'll live my life and when it's done I'll live again in those to come. For I'm a bridge from she to me; from those that were, to those to be."

-- Darlene Caryl-Stevens

46 Chromosomes Thats what each of us are made from!

When Sperm penetrates the egg we have begun.  What we look like its all in the genes.  
Tall, short, dark, fair, pear, board or apple shaped.
Smaller odds then the roll of the dice.  

23 Chromosomes From Mom-Through Oogensis: 

23 Chromosomes From Dad-Through Spermatogenesis:

Its amazing that what we get.  

So the Sperm brings its own individual 23 chromos. with it to the egg. The egg has 23 chromos of its own.

No 2 sperm carries different 23 chromos  as another sperm.  Same goes for the Egg each egg has a different lineup of 23 chromosomes.

Thats why we can all look so different then our siblings  then maybe all look so much alike.

Name Origins

Name Origins by Julie Helen Otto, Genealogist Of NEHGS newletter Asenath Collins (1839-1870) found at:  http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~garyscottcollins/ SENA (f): Often a nickname for ASENATH (or for any other name with middle or ending element -sen- [e.g. POLYXENA]. ASENATH is Old Testament Biblical, originally Egyptian ("And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath, daughter of Potipherah, priest of On --" Gen. 41:45), while POLYXENA (not mentioned by Homer) was a Trojan princess, betrothed or married to Achilles (accounts differ) and sacrificed by the victorious Greeks on his tomb "to appease his shade." (Clarence L. Barnhart, William D. Halsey et al., The New Century Cyclopedia of Names, 3 vols. [1954], 3:3218). Here the specific meaning of a name has given way to phonetic convenience, if you will. In such cases it may be important to seek names in other forms: a woman may be Asenath in her birth record, Sena in her marriage record -- or Sena in her birth record and Polly X. at marriage. Sena Luddington, daughter of Titus and Merriam Luddington, was born July 20, 1773, in Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut. (Connecticut Vital Records to 1870, The Barbour Collection, AmericanAncestors.org.) In his 1815 will, Joseph Van Falkenburgh of Sharon, Schoharie County, New York, gave $200 to his daughter, Sena Van Falkenburgh. (Abstracts of Wills, Admins. and Guardianships in NY State, 1787-1835, AmericanAncestors.org.)