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From: "Barbara Hammer" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT - Why Do Genealogy
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:48:42 -0500
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Maybe so, but there is a lot more to genetics than we really realize. I agree, Teresa.I met a "cousin" this past summer that I didn't even know existed until I started actively doing genealogical research after about 25+ years who looks and acts so much like me, it was scary. Our great grandfathers were brothers so we aren't that close on the family tree even. Our husbands even commented on our mannerisms being so similar.

Barbara Ferguson Hammer

----- Original Message -----
From: Teresa Ghee Elliott
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Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 2:20 PM
Subject: RE: [TMG] OT - Why Do Genealogy


Maybe so, but there is a lot more to genetics than we really realize. My
mother can not tell her left from right without holding both hands in the
air and looking to see which on makes an L. We met a cousin of hers a few
years ago, and he was going to give us directions on how to get home. He
held up both hands and then pointed left and said go left at that
intersection. Now when I meet a cousin online researching that line, I
always ask, "Can you tell your left from your right without thinking about
it?" So far they all have admitted they have to hold up their hands and
look for the L one. That has to be genetic from some distant ancestor.

And two of my children point with their middle finger and have since
birth, just like my father. And my son acts just like my cousin whom he has
met twice briefly in 13 years. Their mannerisms are identical. That has to
be genetic, because most of the things my cousin did that irritated me as a
child, (like not turning in finished homework) my son now does as a 7th
grader. Now who would have thought a gene would carry those kinds of
things?

Teresa Ghee Elliott
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-----Original Message-----
From: JEH [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 12:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [TMG] OT - Why Do Genealogy

Dale

Its a nice story but I'm sorry to disagree.

Firstly science does not tell us that every part of our bodies and certainly
not our minds has been programmed from our genes. That ignores the nurture
side of the nature/nuture debate. For example there is now powerful evidence
that the nutrition of a pregnant woman can "program" the fetus and exert a
major influence on health in adult life inducing conditions such as heart
disease and diabetes.

Secondly you cannot be sure that your William Cash from the 1600s has
contributed any of your genetic makeup at all. Humans have 46 chromosomes
half of which are inherited from each parent. My 8G-grandfather Matthew
Dodsworth was born cir 1660. Since I have 1024 8g-grandfathers to contribute
the 46 chromosomes the chances are that none of them comes from Matthew. The
exception that I can argue for is my 8g-grandfather on the direct male line
since he must have contributed the X-chromosome that makes me a male.
However since I don't know who he is (and even if I did) I still cannot
exclude the "milkman" effect.

John Heckels

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From: <>
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Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT - Why Do Genealogy


> Some years ago I put together a family type history for a grand daughter
and
> I wrote the following foreword to that book to try to explain why she
should
> have an interest in family.
>
> Science teaches us that every part of our bodies and minds has been
> programmed from the genes given to us by our parents at the moment of
conception. We
> are, in body and mind, the product of these genes. It is important to note
and
> remember that characteristics of our parents are not themselves inherited,
but
> that each of our parents gives us tiny physical bits of themselves, which
> carry the genes that determine our characteristics. These very real bits
of our
> parents, combine to form a single cell which then replicates to form all
the
> rest of the cells of our bodies. Thus, we grow to adults with every part
of us
> predetermined by these tiny physical pieces of our parents. Of course, the
> process follows that our parents are each the product of the genes given
to them by
> their parents and the process goes on back through the generations to
> whomever preceded each of us.
> Thus, you, Young Tyler, have in your body, not just inherited
> characteristics, but very real physical body parts, called genes, passed
to you from
> Charles Tyler, who lived in Virginia in the 1600s, from William Cash, who
came
> from Scotland to live in Virginia in the 1600s, from Peter Gottfried
Mueller, who
> was born in Solingen, Germany in 1758, from William Sorrell, born in 1730
in
> Virginia, Joseph Mellor from Yorkshire in England in the 1700s and many,
many
> others even more long ago. These people are never totally dead as a very
real
> part of them still exists in you.
> This book, by letting you get acquainted with some of the people who are
in
> it, hopefully may contribute in some small way in you getting to know
> yourself.
> Appreciate these people, each and every one of them, because they, in
sum,
> are you.- Dale
>
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