DNA Testing on Sale Again

DNA testing kits are on sale again at FamilyTreeDNA.  No coupon or code required.  If you have been waiting to test, a sale is the best time to buy.  A DNA kit also makes a great "gift" for someone in your family (tree).

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Family Finder Testing, or Autosomal DNA Testing, is on sale for $199.  You save $90.  Anyone can take the test.  If your parents or grandparents are still living, you will want to test them also.  This is the same kind of testing done at 23andMe (currently not on sale for $299) and the "new" AncestryDNA.

AncestryDNA is running a sort-of sale, more like an incentive to buy the DNA kit and subscribe to the records available at Ancestry.  For a more complete analysis of the fee structure, please see CeCe's post.

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For those of you researching a particular surname, you can purchase a Y-DNA kit for a man in the direct male line of interest to you.  Also on sale.  The more markers, the better.

FamilyTreeDNA

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Ancestry.com's Y-DNA services cost more than FamilyTreeDNA at this moment.  Once your DNA is computed, you can upload the results to other sites, such as Ysearch, in hopes of finding matches who tested elsewhere.

For those of you tracing your family trees without the assistance of DNA, now is a great time to get started with the scientific analysis of your roots.

Amanuensis Monday: Doolittle and Porter of Connecticut

Transcription of Family Notes found in family file for BISHOP at The New York State Library in Albany.

Chauncey Andrews Doolittle born Dec. 28, 1877

Married May 25, 1910, in Meriden, Conn, Edith E Porter.

Children:

Lawrence Porter born Mar. 15, 1911.

Henry Andrews born Apr. 23, 1912.

Lois Edith born May 24, 1913.

Ruth Helen born Sept. 26, 1914.

Dorothy Margaret born Dec. 30, 1915.

Raymond Chauncey born May 31, 1919.

Robert Everett born Feb. 10, 1921.

Harry Stevens born Mar. 10, 1922.

 

Harry Burton Johnson born Feb. 21, 1904.  [Maybe Brenton or Benton]

Ruth Mary 1897.

1930 United State Federal Census
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut
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Family Files at Albany

A gem to find in any library or depository is a family file.  The New York State Library at Albany houses boxes of research deposited over the decades, oftentimes not indexed or otherwise accounted for, I was told on the tour.  Contents of the files varies greatly from self-published genealogies to newspaper clippings and family bibles.  Records end up deposited at the Library for a number of reasons, such as the family historian last living in the Albany area, and not necessarily because the family had any ties to New York.

Boxes containing family files
New York State Library, Albany

Custer Family Genealogy
Self-published

Copy of hand-written notes and
Copy of marriage certificate from 1859
John Rorbach to Harriet Cook in Albany

Posterior of actual photograph of Elting Family Bible

Photograph of Elting Family Bible written in Dutch
Dates in the 1700s

Hand-written family notes concerning a Connecticut family including Bishop.
This family historian recorded information on whatever paper available.
I think I will transcribe this set of papers.