Dolly’s gone, and my heart is broken. Dolly’s nephew shared the sad news with us today in this video, expressing his deep love for her. I have shed so many tears to Dolly’s songs over the years, but none more than today. Dolly saw me through births, joy, excruciating loss, and so many deaths. Love …
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Untangling the Life of Madeleine Hélie (c1633-1677/1678) – 52 Ancestors #479
Madeleine, Madelaine, and sometimes called Magdelaine or Magdeleine Hélie, the wife of Philippe Mius d’Entremont, was born about 1633 in France, probably in Normandy. For consistency, I’ll refer to her as Madeleine. To confuse things further, she also had a daughter by the same name AND a daughter named Marguerite. Of course she did! To …
Mitotree: First, the Tree – Now the Paper
It’s definitely a red-letter day. Dr. Paul Maier, the lead author on the new paper Mitotree: The Universal Human Mitochondrial Reference Phylogeny at 10x the Resolution has uploaded the paper to the bioRxiv preprint server, here. I want to congratulate all of the authors, most of whom are members of the FamilyTreeDNA R&D team as …