How does Haplogroups, You and Disease Exist in the same body.

Worth looking into for you and your decendants.

Did you do your DNA yet?

Did you know you can find out which Haplogroup your from.

Here is a explanation of it from Wikipedia:

 Haplogroup  What is That!???

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

...A haplotype is a group of alleles in an organism that are inherited together from a single parent,^[1][2] and a haplogroup (haploid from the Greek: ἁπλοῦς, haploûs, "onefold, simple" and English: Group) is a group of similar haplotypes that share a common ancestor with a single-nucleotide polymorphism mutation.^[3][4] More specifically, a haplogroup is a combination of alleles at different chromosomal regions that are closely linked and that tend to be inherited together. As a haplogroup consists of similar haplotypes, it is usually possible to predict a haplogroup from haplotypes. Haplogroups pertain to a single line of descent. As such, membership of a haplogroup, by any individual, relies on a relatively small proportion of the genetic material possessed by that individual.

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Then did you know your Haplogroup can determine if you can get certain illnesses, as explained here:  

From The: Oxford Academic

Human Molecular 

Genetics: 

::Population Genetics and Disease Susceptibility: Characterization of Central European Haplogroups By mtDNA Gene Mutations, Correlation with D Loop Variants and Association With Disease 

Sabine Hofmann, Michaela Jaksch, Reimar Bezold, Sabine Mertens, Simone Aholt, Armin Paprotta, Klaus-Dieter Gerbitz Author Notes::

Human Molecular Genetics, Volume 6, Issue 11, October 1997, Pages 1835–1846, https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/6.11.1835

Published:

 

01 October 1997

Their Abstract as follows: 

Abstract

Mitochondrial (mt)DNA haplogroups in a German control group (n = 67) were characterized by screening mitochondrial coding regions encompassing most of the ND, tRNA and cyt b genes. We used a PCR-SSCP screening approach followed by direct sequencing of polymorphic mtDNA fragments. Five major mtDNA lineages, diverging in at least nine different haplogroups, could be defined by characteristic polymorphic sites in mitochondrial genes. Additional sequencing of two hypervariable segments (HVS-I and II) of the non-coding displacement (D) loop in all control subjects revealed that certain D loop variants were strongly correlated with lineages and haplogroups, while others represented hotspots occurring frequently in different haplogroups. The existence of identified lineages and haplogroups received support from data in the literature, obtained by use of different approaches. Subsequently, we investigated four disease groups for association with these haplogroups: (i) LHON patients (n = 55) carrying at least one of the primary/intermediate LHON mutations at nt 3460, 11778, 14484 and/or 15257; (ii) patients suffering from Wolfram or DIDMOAD syndrome(n = 8); (iii) MELAS patients (n = 9); (iv) a group of children, who died from ‘sudden infant death syndrome’ (SIDS) (n = 9). The distribution patterns among the haplogroups of the disease groups (LHON, DIDMOAD and SIDS) differed considerably from the control population. LHON and DIDMOAD were significantly under-represented in the most frequent German haplogroup DC, but were concentrated in a mtDNA lineage defined by polymorphisms at nt 4216+11251+16126. As this lineage diverged into two precisely defined haplogroups, LHON and DIDMOAD could be assigned to the two haplogroups separately. Strikingly, SIDS was often found in association with two rare German haplogroups. MELAS patients were equally distributed among German haplogroups and, moreover, did not reveal any accumulation of specific D loop variants. We conclude that certain European mtDNA haplogroups define a genetic susceptibility basis for various disorders.

As you see in the abstract they are very telling illnesses/disease that have all to do with your Haplogroup.  Amazing and sad as stated in the abstract with SIDS.

So can your Haplogroup also keep you from becoming ill from Pandemics? I tried to find this out. There are no current studies on it.  Who knows in a few short years someone may take an interest as we might learn a result then. 

So you did do your DNA!  Did you know there is a service that can provide you with many answers?  I uploaded my raw DNA in a service called Prometheus.  It can tell you what color eyes you should have.  I had to share with them that nope my eyes are not so yellow as they say.  

It has all kinds of information to help you out.  Mine wtells me I'll have Diabetes and High Blood Pressure. Exactly what happened after I was menopausal.   

Spiegel Girls  from Essexville circa 1918

Grandma and Great Aunts

Sugar Beet Farming Family 

4 of  11 children 6 girls 4 boys

 

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Van der Spiegel and de Rjicke European cousins Help needed!!! Van der Spiegel en de Rjicke Europese neven hulp nodig!!! Van der Spiegel et de Rjicke européennes cousines besoin d'aide!!! Van der Spiegel und de Rjicke europäischen Vettern Hilfe benötigt!

I have hit a huge Brick Wall. 

 My 3rd Great Grandparents Louis Van der Spiegel* & Idonia Rjicke.

They were suppose to have married in Belgium.  I cannot locate any such record for them.  

* Spiegel name has been written several ways, Speigel, Spegiel, Spegel, also with the der, then with Van der.  

365 Days a Year, 

365 Family History-Genealogy Rules

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Grandparents/ Ancestors

  Children/ Decedents

  Grandchildren/ Descendants

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2          Parents/Ancestor 
 Child/Descendant

365 Days a Year, 

365 Family History-Genealogy Rules

       1   Person 
 Child/Descendant

Who Does What Best?

Genealogist/Family Historian ASK THE Questions the rest of the Family is shy to to ask about.   

Now the Question been asked and They all want in on it if its good.  Other wise just keep the lid on it don't talk about it.  Who Knew??? 

Need Help Please. Help Me vett this new Info.

Found this Tree while searching the internet, however before I can include it in my tree I need to vette it.  Meaning I need support for it.  What do I mean by support?

Documentation of course.  What kinds, you ask?  Birth records, Baptismal-or similar records, school record, government record, as well Marriage records.

Plus if you see flaws with this tree, please point them out.  Then I will work to resolve them. I must be able to prove this tree. 

Carlos Ludovicus De Speghel, son of Johannes Baptista De Speghel & Anna Theresia Jacques .  He was born in Klerken Belgium

1st married Idonia Coletta de Dycke on 5 Feb 1860 in Klerken Belgium, she is the daughter of Emmanuelle Rycke & Rosalia Seraphina Pysson, b. 4 May 1799 in Klerken Belgium, she died on 29 Nov 1839 in Klerken.

issue of marriage:

i.	Charles Bernard DESPEGHEL was born 25 Aug 1822 in Klerken.
		ii.	Jan Baptiste DESPEGHEL was born 11 Dec 1823 in Klerken, and died 30 Jan 1824 in Klerken.
		iii.	Franciscus Bernard DESPEGHEL was born 20 Dec 1824 in Klerken.
		iv.	David Alexander DESPEGHEL was born 17 Jun 1826 in Klerken, and died 13 Sep 1826 in Klerken.
		v.	Virginia Sophie DESPEGHEL was born 13 Oct 1827 in Klerken, and died 29 Jan 1839 in Klerken.
		vi.	Maria Theresa DESPEGHEL was born 27 Oct 1828 in Klerken, and died 17 Jun 1829 in Klerken.
		vii.	David Alexander DESPEGHEL was born 3 Apr 1830 in Klerken.
		viii.	Amand Joseph DESPEGHEL was born 10 Sep 1831 in Klerken, and died 20 Dec 1833 in Klerken.
		ix.	Marie Theresa DESPEGHEL was born Nov 1832 in Klerken, and died 15 May 1834 in Klerken.
		x.	Leonard Joseph DESPEGHEL was born 6 Oct 1834 in Klerken.
		xi.	Bruno DESPEGHEL was born 10 Feb 1836 in Klerken, and died 25 Apr 1837 in Klerken.
		xii.	Emiliana Sophia DESPEGHEL was born 26 Nov 1839 in Klerken.

2nd marriage to

m. Barbara Carolina TUYTTEN 12 Sep 1840 in Klerken, daughter of Joseph TUYTTEN and Angela Josepha WULLEPUT. She was born 1810 in Woumen, and died 15 Dec 1842 in Klerken. No listed issue. 3rd marriage to  m. Amelia DEBRUYNE 21 Sep 1843 in Langemark, daughter of Joannes Innocent DEBRUYNE and Barbara Theresa PROVOOST. She was born 8 Oct 1801 in Langemark. No listed issue

This tree is of the De Speghel family. That arrived in Bay City,  Michigan - From Klerken Belgium

The Tree is of a Belgian Family.

Belgium has a very harried history. Several other nations overtaking it, many many wars fought on its soil.  The records can be in so many languages. 

+But to know which language the document was recorded in is another issue.   

Ann Arbor Boy Moves to Buffalo NY with family and does good in his Future!

Edgar Boardman Jewett

He was born in 14 Dec 1843 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  His parents moved on over to Buffalo, New York in 1849 will Edgar intow.

His father John Cotton Jewett, Opened a manufacturing company in which refrigerators were manufactured.  As well as these other  durable goods, ice chests, water coolers, toiletwares, spittons, bathing apparatus,porcelined-lined coolers. Then in the science department they produced hospital & laboratoty equipment. 

When the Civil War broke out in 1861 Edgar B. enlisted as a private in Co. C, 74th Regiment N.G.S.N.Y.  While in May 1863 he was then elected Sergeant.  When he returned to Buffalo in 29 June 1865 he was then a First Sergeant.  He was commissioned as a First Lieutenant on 3 April 1866.  Along the way he was commissioned in various other Military Rank until he acheived Brigadier General of the 8th Brigade.  He served until 7 Dec 1855.  At which time he retired from military service and became the President & General Manager of his fathers company, John C. Jewett Manufacturing Company.

 

Edgar Boardman Jewett

Public Office   

1 March 1894 Gen. Jewett was appointed by Mayor Charles F. Bishop to the Board of Police Commissioners with a term of 5 years.  Edgar B. Jewett was elected as Mayor on 6 Nov. 1894.  During his term as Mayor the Masten Park High School was built.  There were also 11 other school built.

Jewett also supported a free library for Buffalo he did this by signing the document on 1 March 1897. 

The Buffalo History Museum building would not be there had it not been for E. Jewett signing a bill to provide a piece of park property.

Private Life

Edgar married Miss Elizabeth Poster Danforth, also of Ann Arbor, on 3 Oct 1865.

They had 4 children: Maude b. 1868 d. same year, George Danforth b. 1869 d. same year, John Edgar b. 1871 and Mabel b. 1877.

Some information is from: Memorial and Family History of Erie County, New York ...: Biographical and Genealogical ..., wikipedia, http://www.newyorkroots.org/index.php/new-york-counties/erie-county/218-memorial-and-family-history-of-erie-county-new-york-volume-i/284-jewett-gen-edgar-b-erie-county, and 

Make sure you have it Verified

I have a story to tell.

    I had a family member who spend alot of time researching the family tree line of my paternal maternal line.(This was over 12 years ago).  They were given mis-information.  The information came from a death certificate.  In which the deceased last maiden name was hard to read.  That one piece of info is leaked into online trees.  I see it every time I pull to search for that family line.  There are hundreds of trees with that incorrect piece of information.  It is even in Familysearch.org.  

  From one person using only one document not verifying it. Adding it to their tree and never fixing it.

  Lets go back to the Death Cert.  I found the death certificate looked at it. Saw that it was hard to read the name.  I made sure to check it against other sources.  So I could know the correct maiden name.  This was a process.  Months in the making.  Worth every day to know the information for that GGranmother is correct.

As you discovery information on your ancestors you may at times find yourself provided with information passed on to you by another Family Historian.  

Now you have some choices to make.  As well as questions to ask your self.

1. Is the information sourced?

2. Where do I find the source?

3.Can I easily verify the source?

4.How do I know its the correct information?

5. Add it to my tree before I verify the source?

My answers to these questions is as follows:

1. Even if its sourced you must backtrack yourself.  Meaning find that source documentation.  Review the source document, how valid is the source document?  Who provided the information for the source document?  I know it's alot of questions to answer.  I can guarantee if you do this extra leg work.  When you Vett you family tree, you can stand by it with surety.

2. Depending on where the documentation is coming from. Go back to the original information given to you.  Can you ask them where they got the information?  If so ask them.  If you get the run around you just know they most likely do not have accurate documentation but they put it in there like fact anyway.

Just like  When I see a public tree on-line and ask the provider of the information where did they get the information from, over and over again I'm told from the internet, ancestry.com, etc...  They never bothered to verify anything.  So now other folks can come along and pick up the misinformation as if its accurate info.  Then they continue the missteps of those to follow.

3.  No source is ever easy to verify.  It does take time.  Family History Genealogy is not a quick process although some, very few, things might come easy.

4. Find three sources for the same piece of information.

5. If your tree is Public Never!!!     

     If your tree is set to private  how are you noting that the information still needs verification?

Happy Ancestor Hunting

Understanding A "Coat of Arms"

The Coat Of Arms

What it really means,  what is significant about it.  How does it compare with other cultures acheivements.

A blank Coat Of Arms.  Each area is designated for certain elements.  The following diagram lists out what achievement goes where on the Coat Of Arms.  Very strict rules by the way.

Points of an escutcheon or heraldic shield:^[1]

A – Chief
B – Dexter
C – Sinister
D – Base
E – Dexter Chief
F – Middle Chief
G – Sinister Chief
H – Honour Point
I – Fess Point
J – Nombril Point
K – Dexter Base
L – Sinister Base
M – Middle Base (seldom used)

A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on an escutcheon (i.e. shield), surcoat, or tabard. A surcoat, and subsequently a coat of arms was used by medieval knights to cover, protect, and identify the wearer. Thus these are sometimes called coat armory. The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full heraldic achievement which consists of shield, supporters, crest, and motto. The design is a symbol unique to an individual person or family (except in the UK), corporation, or state. Such displays are commonly called armorial bearings, armorial devices,heraldic devices, or simply arms.

Sometimes the term coat of arms is used to refer to the full achievement, but this usage is wrong in a strict sense of heraldic terminology.^[1][2]

The ancient Romans used similar insignias on their shields, but these identified military units rather than individuals. The first evidence of medieval coats of arms is found in the Bayeux Tapestry from the 11th Century, where some of the combatants carry shields painted with crosses. Coats of arms came into general use by feudal lords and knights in battle in the 12th Century. By the 13th Century arms had spread beyond their initial battlefield use to become a kind of flag or logo for families in the higher social classes of Europe, inherited from one generation to the next. Exactly who had a right to use arms, by law or social convention, varied to some degree between countries. In the German-speaking region both the aristocracy and burghers (non-noble free citizens) used arms, while in most of the rest of Europe they were limited to the aristocracy. The use of arms spread to Church clergy, and to towns as civic identifiers, and to royally-chartered organizations such as universities and trading companies. Flags developed from coats of arms, and the arts of vexillology and heraldry are closely related. The coats of arms granted to commercial companies are a major source of the modern logo.

=====In the movie "THE EAGLE"  

Despite no widespread regulation, and even with a lack in many cases of national regulation, heraldry has remained rather consistent across Europe, where traditions alone have governed the design and use of arms.^{[citation needed]} Unlike seals and other general emblems, heraldic achievements have a formal description called a blazon, expressed in a jargon that allows for consistency in heraldic depictions.

In the 21st century, coats of arms are still in use by a variety of institutions and individuals; for example, many European cities and universities have guidelines on how their coats of arms may be used, and protect their use as trademarks.^[3][4][5] Many societies exist that also aid in the design and registration of personal arms. Some nations, like England and Scotland, still maintain the same heraldic authorities which have traditionally granted and regulated arms for centuries and continue to do so in the present day.

Shapes of the Sheild veried.

Examples of escutcheon shapes: 1: mediaeval French & English "heater style"; 2: modern French; 3: cartouche (oval); 4: lozenge (usually borne by women); 5: rectangular; 6: Italian; 7: Swiss, 8: English,Tudor arch (16th century); 9: à bouche; 10: Polish; 11: traditional Iberian

Inescutcheons as mobile charges[edit]

Inescutcheons may appear in personal and civic armory as simple mobile charges, for example the arms of the House of Mortimer or the noble French family of Abbeville. These mobile charges are of a particular tincture but do not necessarily bear further charges and may appear anywhere on the main escutcheon, their placement being specified in the blazon, if in doubt.

Inescutcheons may also be charged with other mobile charges, such as in the arms of the Swedish Collegium of Arms (illustrated below) which bears the three crowns of Sweden, each upon its own escutcheon upon the field of the main shield. These inescutcheons serve as a basis for including other charges that do not serve as an augmentation or hereditary claim. In this case, the inescutcheons azure allow the three crowns of Sweden to be placed upon a field, thus not only remaining clearly visible but also conforming to the rule of tincture.

Inescutcheon of pretence[edit]

Inescutcheons may also be used to bear another's arms in "pretense".^{[note 1]} In English Heraldry the husband of an heraldic heiress, the sole daughter and heiress of an armigerous man (i.e. a lady without any brothers), rather than impaling his wife's paternal arms as is usual, must place her paternal arms in an escutcheon of pretence in the centre of his own shield as a claim ("pretence") to be the new head of his wife's family, now extinct in the male line. In the next generation the arms are quartered by the son.

Use by monarchs and states[edit]

A monarch's personal or hereditary arms may be borne on an inescutcheon en surtout over the territorial arms of his/her domains,^{[note 2]} as in the arms of Spain, thecoats of arms of the Danish Royal Family members, the greater coat of arms of Sweden, or the arms of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England (1653–1659). The early Georgian kings of England bore an inescutcheon of the royal arms of Hanover on the arms of the Stuart monarchs of Great Britain, whose territories they now ruled.

This is mearly a small introduction to Coat Of Arms.  Please discover more.

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Sylvestre Name origin and meaning

"Sylvestre  Name Meaning and History

French: from the personal name Sylvestre (see Sylvester).

 

Dictionary of American Family Names,

 Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Sylvestre-…

Sylvester Name Meaning and History

English and German: from a personal name (Latin Silvester, a derivative of silva ‘wood’).

 

The surname Sylvestre is a French variant of the surname Sylvester which is English and German: from a personal name (Latin Silvester, a derivative of silva ‘wood’). 
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As the surname has more than one origin you would, as always, need to research your ancestors and learn their origins. 

Surname etymologies are generic and simply state the first know place a surname is recorded and may have nothing to do with the history of your family.

Sylvester Surname History

This name has its origins in a Latin given name, "Silvester", a derivative of the word "silva", meaning wood, and denoting "the dweller in the wood". 

The personal name was first recorded in Leicestershire in 1154 as "Silvester", and in 1204, in Yorkshire, as "Selvester", and the surname first appeared afterwards as "Silvestr" (see below). 

The surname development includes: William Silvester (1250, Lancashire), and William Sevester (1455, Kent). The modern surname has a number of variants, ranging from 
Silvester, Selvester and Sylvester,  to Siviter and Seveter.

 One Abram Silvester, aged 14 yrs., was an early emigrant to the New World, leaving London in January 1634, bound for Virginia.

 A Coat of Arms granted to the Silvester family is a silver shield, with an oak tree eradicated green, and two red crescents in chief,
The Crest being a lion's head erased green. 

In Heraldry, 

the oak tree signifies Antiquity and Strength, 

and the crescent is associated with Faith and Hope. 

The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Thomas Silvestr,

 which was dated 1212, in the "Book of Fees for Hampshire", during the reign of King John, 

known as "Lackland", 1199 - 1216. http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Sylvest"

My Sylvestre Ancestor Family

Joseph & Maud (Verville) Family  8 Children

Ada De Balliol - Balliol married John FitxRober Clavering

House of Balliol

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikisource has the text of the1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Baliol.

The House of Balliol (de Bailleul) was a Picard and Anglo-Norman family originating from Bailleul who began to rule some estates in England in the reign of William Rufus. In the late 13th and 14th centuries, two members of the house were kings of Scotland.

 

List of heads of the Balliol estates[edit]

• Guy I de Balliol (died before 1130 × 1133), established lordship in northern England in 1090s
• Bernard I de Balliol (died 1154 x 1162), nephew of Guy
• Guy II de Balliol (died early 1160s x 1167), son of Bernard
• Bernard II de Balliol (died c. 1190), brother of above
• Eustace de Balliol (died c. 1209), cousin of above
• Hugh de Balliol (died 1229), son of above
• John I de Balliol (died 1268), son of above, the founder of Balliol College
• John II de Balliol (died 1314), son of above, ruled from 1292 to 1296, and claimed the throne as great-great-great-grandson of David I of Scotland of the House of Dunkeld.
• Edward de Balliol (died 1364), eldest son of John, who ruled from Scotland in name from 1332 to about 1338 in contest with David II of Scotland of the House of Bruce.

Both Balliols had English support for their claims; both were deposed. Edward died without issue, but the Balliol descent continued through his cousin Christine de Lindsay (granddaughter of John II), who married Enguerrand V de Coucy, to the lords of Coucy and ultimately the Bourbon kings of France and Spain.

 

source: all from Wikipedia