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  1. breakfast with friends this morning, then studying for the bar exam all day (it's only 23 days away!)
  2. RT @worldhistory: "Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code. Jefferson and his Ciphers" http://tinyurl.com/mxnpf9
  3. RT @napobo3: "First issue of The Russian Journal of Genetic Genealogy in English: http://tinyurl.com/lg65xe Good luck!" #genealogy #DNA
  4. @footnotemaven @dixieau @LHellmund @southerngraves thank you for the kinds words - it's great to finally have this obituary in hand!
  5. @mastershakefan it's very nice to meet you, good luck on your biotechnology studies!
  6. @jensmccabe thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed it
  7. @jensmccabe I posted a response to the bioethicist's critique on my blog, if interested - http://tinyurl.com/m4dkxj
  8. I just found an online copy of my beloved grandfather's obituary for the first time after many years trying to find it... #genealogy
  9. Blog Post - My Response to Today's Critique of Genetic Ancestry Testing (genetic #genealogy) in Science Magazine http://tinyurl.com/m4dkxj
  10. Stanford Bioethicist and Colleagues Call for Federal Regulation of Genetic Ancestry Testing http://tinyurl.com/l46xb4 (blog post tomorrow)
  11. Exhumation of 1812 hero Zebulon Pike for DNA testing stirs controversy: http://tinyurl.com/kssndu (via @megansmolenyak) - should they exume?
  12. @dgmacarthur I'm also curious as to whether a "pro-smoker" result would actually lower propensity to quit (not examined in paper, I believe)
  13. Latest Genetic Genealogy Series "Faces of America" Expected From PBS in 2010 http://post.ly/13Ni
  14. Missing control group who received NO DNA results - would > % of control group quit compared to low risk group? http://tinyurl.com/l2znht
  15. @dustyr mine was also R, although I'm R1b1b2a1a1 - and an H guess for European origin will be right 50% of the time, so it's a safe guess!
  16. @ulb - so far I have 1 correct and 2 wrongs, expected with location-based system; @mdiane_rogers strange, hope it works in UK soon
  17. Curious if anyone else tested the accuracy of the Ancient Ancestry Finder - http://tinyurl.com/mhzb64 RT @Broxted "Mine were way off target"
  18. Isonymy can be used to investigate pop. structure/origin of Irish emigrant groups in Britain & Irish diaspora http://tinyurl.com/m3ek8b pdf
  19. Ancient Ancestry Finder via Ancestry.com offers free DNA haplogroup guess based on location http://tinyurl.com/mhzb64 - mine were both right
  20. New issue of ISOGG (International Society of Genetic Genealogy) newsletter is available - http://tinyurl.com/lk5s4x