Friday, May 8, 2020
Saving the Monarchy
On May 7 we received a packet of showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) seeds from Red Butte Garden and attended their online class Saving the Monarchy: On Monarchs & Milkweeds. We soaked the seeds overnight and started them inside May 8 under our grow lights. Next step: germination!
Monday, August 7, 2017
Ancestry Composition across three testing companies
Back in 2012 I posted my Ancestry Composition results from 23andMe. I thought I'd revisit this by comparing my results from 23andMe, Ancestry, and FamilyTreeDNA.
Trace Results
Ashkenazi< 1%
Southeast Europe< 1%
What I gather here is that we're not particularly good at distinguishing between British Isles and Western Europe.
23andMe
European 99.8%
Northwestern European93.2%
British & Irish47.1%
French & German20.6%
Scandinavian6.0%
Broadly Northwestern European19.5%
Southern European4.4%
Iberian1.4%
Broadly Southern European2.9%
Broadly European2.2%
Ancestry
Thousands of years ago
Ethnicity Estimate
Asia
1%
Low Confidence Region
Europe
99%
Europe West (FR, DE)
47%
Ireland
27%
Great Britain
2%
Iberian Peninsula
8%
Low Confidence Region
Scandinavia
3%
Europe East
1%
Italy/Greece
1%
FamilyTreeDNA - Karen
European97%
West and Central Europe76%
British Isles21%
Trace Results
South Central Asia< 2%
< 2%
Trace Results
South Central Asia< 2%
East Europe
FamilyTreeDNA - Karen's full brother Ray
European95%
British Isles 85%
Iberia6%
East Europe4%
Middle Eastern4%
Asia Minor4%Trace Results
Monday, June 5, 2017
Pedigrees as art
With another Mizoue family reunion around the corner, I've been thinking about family trees as art. Our family also attended an orientation session with the nifty $30,000 laser cutter available to Boulder Public Library patrons at their BLDG 61 makerspace. Here's a word cloud of my ancestral surnames:
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Scaling the branches of our global family tree
Sheesh, I should really blog sometimes...
For the past year or two I've been pretty much obsessed with genealogy. Things really kicked up a notch when I became active on WikiTree in late 2014. I found the idea of collaborative family trees fascinating, and pretty quickly became part of the volunteer leadership there. In February 2015 I headed off to RootsTech with the WikiTree gang for my first genealogy conference, brought my family out to the Global Family Reunion in June, and then returned to RootsTech 2016. This year I'm the new Recording Secretary for the Boulder Genealogical Society at home in Colorado, and am a regular at Colorado Genealogical Society events as well. In May I gave my first presentation, entitled "Plays Well with Others: Pros and Cons of Collaborative Family Trees" to the Boulder group.
While I do work on my own family history quite a bit, I especially enjoy helping others connect. Mostly it's other genealogists like myself, but sometimes we get asked to pitch in and connect better known cousins:
So yeah. That's how I spend my evenings...
For the past year or two I've been pretty much obsessed with genealogy. Things really kicked up a notch when I became active on WikiTree in late 2014. I found the idea of collaborative family trees fascinating, and pretty quickly became part of the volunteer leadership there. In February 2015 I headed off to RootsTech with the WikiTree gang for my first genealogy conference, brought my family out to the Global Family Reunion in June, and then returned to RootsTech 2016. This year I'm the new Recording Secretary for the Boulder Genealogical Society at home in Colorado, and am a regular at Colorado Genealogical Society events as well. In May I gave my first presentation, entitled "Plays Well with Others: Pros and Cons of Collaborative Family Trees" to the Boulder group.
While I do work on my own family history quite a bit, I especially enjoy helping others connect. Mostly it's other genealogists like myself, but sometimes we get asked to pitch in and connect better known cousins:
As the leader of WikiTree's Puerto Rican Roots project, it was really fun to find a path between these two New Yorkers. I wish I could say I used my powers of deductive reasoning to discern the shortest path between Ms. Dawson and Mr. Jacobs, but I really just used brute force. I added about 150 of Ms. Dawson's cousins and cousins' cousins until I noticed that her great-great-aunt Julia (Alvira y Torres) Garrison Bookman had married a Georgia man Roy Garrison whose colonial ancestor Christopher Garrison was already present on the global family tree.NYC to Fajardo PR to Georgia & back to NYC. Excited to connect @rosariodawson to @ajjacobs and the other @wikitreers https://t.co/KfmkeST4GK— Karen Tobo (@karentobo) June 16, 2016
So yeah. That's how I spend my evenings...
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Getting ready for the Global Family Reunion
embeddable family tree updated live from WikiTree
So this fall I learned about the upcoming Global Family Reunion in New York from founder AJ Jacobs' TED talk. I'm totally in. Lately I've been obsessed with a WikiTree game called "Connection Combat," in which researchers race to connect two different people to the family. I've been so successful that I think it's time to take a break and give someone else a chance. :)
Friday, August 22, 2014
Bring on the veggies!
Well, I'm dieting. My grocery cart looks like a rolling farm stand, I'm dehydrating zucchini chips for tonight's Red Cross barbecue, and I haven't raided my officemates' candy jars in 16 days. My favorite part is that my awesome local coffee shop Proper Grounds is steaming my daily protein drink into a mocha. Hooray!
Here's the latest:
Here's the latest:
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Ancestry Composition
While I've been a member of 23andMe for some time, it was a post at Your Genetic Genealogist that alerted me to their great biogeographical ancestry tool. Here's their speculative (highest detail, but lowest confidence) analysis of my roots:
I'm not holding out much hope that I'm related to my Japanese-American husband, and I expected a slightly larger African contribution from the part of my family tree that's mostly French-American. But all in all, it seems like a reasonable analysis of my spoonful of the American melting pot.
I'm not holding out much hope that I'm related to my Japanese-American husband, and I expected a slightly larger African contribution from the part of my family tree that's mostly French-American. But all in all, it seems like a reasonable analysis of my spoonful of the American melting pot.
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