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jamaicans.com is pleased to announce another upcoming Guest for Discussion in our Series "Who Are You... Really?"
Friday January 2nd 2004 at 2 pm (NY time) direct from Washington, D.C.... the lovely Ms. Gina Paige, President of African Ancestry, Inc. will be joining us on-line for discussion on searching YOUR ancestry through DNA testing as she and others have successfully done.
Visit their web site at http://www.africanancestry.com/index.html
Her Credentials... " Ms. Paige brings a wealth of diverse management and entrepreneurial experience to the office of chief executive. Ms. Paige’s latest venture has been as founder and president of GPG Strategic Resources, a boutique New York consulting firm specializing in strategy development, new product development and project management. Prior to that, she helped manage and improve the profitability of some of America’s most well-known consumer brands. The list of firms to which she has contributed her considerable talents include Fortune 200 companies such as Sara Lee (from which she received two corporate distinctions) and Colgate-Palmolive. Ms. Paige holds a degree in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business. "
Background info about the DNA tests...
Ten generations back, a person has 1,024 ancestors.
The DNA sequence of any two people -- of any race -- is believed to be more than 99 percent identical. But the variations in the remaining 1 percent can give researchers clues to such things as common ancestry and disease-carrying genes.
The tests work like this: A client swabs tissue from a cheek and sends it to a lab, where it is amplified, or replicated, from a few thousand cells to a few million cells. Key segments are then sequenced and compared with the company's genetic database. Results take about six weeks.
There are two types of tests - Matriclan which examines only mitochondrial DNA, genetic material from the cells' energy-producing mitochondria, which is passed down, unchanged, from mother to daughter; and PatriClan - that sequences DNA segments from the Y chromosome, which passes only from fathers to sons. Because there is no recombination of the DNA in mitochondria or Y chromosomes during conception, we get a direct and accurate signal from the past.
Sometimes, those signals are not what people want to hear. In about 30 percent of cases, African Americans wishing to learn about their paternal lineage have discovered European ancestry, the legacy of male slaveholders impregnating female slaves. source http://www.oregonlive.com/search/ind...oregonian?lvls
More sources for your personal searches and research...
Africa-Related Sites
www.allafrica.com
Africa south of the Sahara
www.AfricaGuide.com
African Studies at Columbia University
Africa Web Links: An Annotated Resource List©
From the African Studies Center of University of Pennsylvania
Civilizations in Africa:
From Washington State University
Kush
Mali
Axum
The Iron Age South of the Sahara
Hausa
Kanem-Borneu
Benin/Forest Kingdoms
Swahili Kingdoms
Genealogy Related Sites
www.ibiblio.org/laslave
www.med.umn.edu/cme/afrgen/africangenealogy.html
Country-Specific Sites
ANGOLA
www.allafrica.com/angola/
CAMEROON
www.ambacam-usa.org
www.allafrica.com/cameroon/
CAPE VERDE
www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies
CHAD
www.allafrica.com/chad/
CONGO
www.embassyofcongo.org/
www.allafrica.com/congo_brazzaville/
www.allafrica.com/congo_kinshasa/
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies
www.allafrica.com/equatorialguinea/
GABON
www.gabonnews.com/s/gabonnews/headlinesnews.html
www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies
GAMBIA
www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies
GHANA
www.ghana-embassy.org/tourism.htm
www.ghanaweb.com
www.ghana.gov.gh
www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/GHANA.HTM
www.allafrica.com/ghana/
GUINEA BISSAU
www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies
IVORY COAST/COTE D’IVOIRE
www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies
www.mbendi.co.za/land/af/ci/p0005.htm
MADAGASCAR
www.embassy.org/madagascar/
MALI
www.maliembassy-usa.org/
www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/MALI.HTM
www.allafrica.com/mali/
NIGER
www.nigerembassyusa.org/index.html
www.allafrica.com/niger/
NIGERIA
www.nigeria.com
www.nigeriaembassyusa.org
www.allafrica.com/nigeria/
SENEGAL
www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies
www.earth2000.com/
www.allafrica.com/senegal/
SIERRA LEONE
www.sierra-leone.org/
More info on the topic
Hopefully as each month progresses, we will be able to provide Members who are committed to searching out their pasts, more options of where to look for information in conducting their research as well as how to find confirmation of information.
Please take the time to join us in discussion on January 2nd at 2 pm, for an enlightening and exciting hour.
Friday January 2nd 2004 at 2 pm (NY time) direct from Washington, D.C.... the lovely Ms. Gina Paige, President of African Ancestry, Inc. will be joining us on-line for discussion on searching YOUR ancestry through DNA testing as she and others have successfully done.
Visit their web site at http://www.africanancestry.com/index.html
Her Credentials... " Ms. Paige brings a wealth of diverse management and entrepreneurial experience to the office of chief executive. Ms. Paige’s latest venture has been as founder and president of GPG Strategic Resources, a boutique New York consulting firm specializing in strategy development, new product development and project management. Prior to that, she helped manage and improve the profitability of some of America’s most well-known consumer brands. The list of firms to which she has contributed her considerable talents include Fortune 200 companies such as Sara Lee (from which she received two corporate distinctions) and Colgate-Palmolive. Ms. Paige holds a degree in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business. "
Background info about the DNA tests...
Ten generations back, a person has 1,024 ancestors.
The DNA sequence of any two people -- of any race -- is believed to be more than 99 percent identical. But the variations in the remaining 1 percent can give researchers clues to such things as common ancestry and disease-carrying genes.
The tests work like this: A client swabs tissue from a cheek and sends it to a lab, where it is amplified, or replicated, from a few thousand cells to a few million cells. Key segments are then sequenced and compared with the company's genetic database. Results take about six weeks.
There are two types of tests - Matriclan which examines only mitochondrial DNA, genetic material from the cells' energy-producing mitochondria, which is passed down, unchanged, from mother to daughter; and PatriClan - that sequences DNA segments from the Y chromosome, which passes only from fathers to sons. Because there is no recombination of the DNA in mitochondria or Y chromosomes during conception, we get a direct and accurate signal from the past.
Sometimes, those signals are not what people want to hear. In about 30 percent of cases, African Americans wishing to learn about their paternal lineage have discovered European ancestry, the legacy of male slaveholders impregnating female slaves. source http://www.oregonlive.com/search/ind...oregonian?lvls
More sources for your personal searches and research...
Africa-Related Sites
www.allafrica.com
Africa south of the Sahara
www.AfricaGuide.com
African Studies at Columbia University
Africa Web Links: An Annotated Resource List©
From the African Studies Center of University of Pennsylvania
Civilizations in Africa:
From Washington State University
Kush
Mali
Axum
The Iron Age South of the Sahara
Hausa
Kanem-Borneu
Benin/Forest Kingdoms
Swahili Kingdoms
Genealogy Related Sites
www.ibiblio.org/laslave
www.med.umn.edu/cme/afrgen/africangenealogy.html
Country-Specific Sites
ANGOLA
www.allafrica.com/angola/
CAMEROON
www.ambacam-usa.org
www.allafrica.com/cameroon/
CAPE VERDE
www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies
CHAD
www.allafrica.com/chad/
CONGO
www.embassyofcongo.org/
www.allafrica.com/congo_brazzaville/
www.allafrica.com/congo_kinshasa/
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies
www.allafrica.com/equatorialguinea/
GABON
www.gabonnews.com/s/gabonnews/headlinesnews.html
www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies
GAMBIA
www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies
GHANA
www.ghana-embassy.org/tourism.htm
www.ghanaweb.com
www.ghana.gov.gh
www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/GHANA.HTM
www.allafrica.com/ghana/
GUINEA BISSAU
www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies
IVORY COAST/COTE D’IVOIRE
www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies
www.mbendi.co.za/land/af/ci/p0005.htm
MADAGASCAR
www.embassy.org/madagascar/
MALI
www.maliembassy-usa.org/
www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/MALI.HTM
www.allafrica.com/mali/
NIGER
www.nigerembassyusa.org/index.html
www.allafrica.com/niger/
NIGERIA
www.nigeria.com
www.nigeriaembassyusa.org
www.allafrica.com/nigeria/
SENEGAL
www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies
www.earth2000.com/
www.allafrica.com/senegal/
SIERRA LEONE
www.sierra-leone.org/
More info on the topic
Hopefully as each month progresses, we will be able to provide Members who are committed to searching out their pasts, more options of where to look for information in conducting their research as well as how to find confirmation of information.
Please take the time to join us in discussion on January 2nd at 2 pm, for an enlightening and exciting hour.
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