Family Stories will be a blog about the lives of my shirt-tail ancestors – aunts, uncles, cousins – and I’ve got some good tales to tell. For the Introductory post, I introduced m…| The News from Sonnystone Acres
In this inspiring episode, Vicki Atkinson and I are talking with author, Linda Broenniman. Linda has written a great family story, The Politzer Saga. She tells us about the offhand comment that rev…| The Heart of the Matter
John Choate, the early settler of that name arrived in Ipswich during the Great Puritan Migration of the 1630s and ‘40s as a young man, and soon eventually acquired land in Chebacco, originally a part of Ipswich which broke away in 1820. By the 3rd generation, Choate family members lived in Newbury and Newburyport, marrying… Continue reading A Brief History of the Choates of Ipswich, Essex, and Newburyport→| Historic Ipswich
Robert Day, the settler, was assigned a lot near High St., about where Bialek Park is now, not too far from the Old North Burying Ground. His wife is said to have been Hannah Pengry, the daughter of Aaron Pengry, whose property adjoined theirs. Robert’s son John inherited the homestead, and son Thomas inherited Robert's farm, farther north on High Street, on the way to Rowley. The family’s relationship to the town of Rowley is evident through several marriages.… Continue reading Robert ...| Historic Ipswich
With the explosion of genetic ancestry testing, more and more Americans are connecting with new parts of their ethno-racial identities. But does a White suburban New Yorker finding out they are 4% Cherokee make them Indigenous? If they believe it does, what are the implications for our everyday understandings of racial identity? A new article […]| Articles – Contexts
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My friend and brother in Christ, Ben Dixon, joins me for my 90th interview. He is the new operations manager of the Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship, of which I’m a co-founder, so the two of us ta…| Dissident Mama
By Walt Garlington How the lands of our forebears once shoneWith the iridescence of the Gospel’s glow!Saint Timothy illumined northern Africa –His body, burned alive, left ashesKindled with noetic …| Dissident Mama
The All of Us Research Program, whose mission is to “to accelerate health research and medical breakthroughs, enabling individualized prevention, treatment, and care for all of us”, recently published a flagship paper in Nature on “Genomic Data in the All of Us Research Program“. This is a review of Figure 2 from the paper (referred […]| Bits of DNA
Here the long-awaited results. Pretty much as expected, with no major surprises. About 2/3rds Black, 1/4 White, 1/12th Asian. The only unexpected things are in my Asian ancestry. Apparently, contrary to what I have been told, I have no South Asian ancestry. Also, of my East Asian ancestry, half appears to be Southeast Asian, rather than Chinese. My […]| JayMan's Blog