Allison Peacock

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Oh wow! Would love to take a look at your tree to see if you have any of our County Tyrone surnames. Off the top of my head a few are: Fleming, McKie, Poage, McCombe, Wilson, Lewis. I’m sure there are others.

I’m going to send you a DM if you haven’t got that turned off. We’d be happy to pay for a test.

If you’ve tested your DNA, I would love for you to send me a DM with your GEDmatch kit number. We are identifying the remains of a Revolutionary War casualty who died in 1780. We believe it’s one of the two oldest autosomal DNA profile in the world and the Nickell matches are strong.

Yeah, I’ve seen that. The early colonial Virginia records here for the family spelled it Nichol in land records for about 50 years and then it was consistently your spelling for 200 years. Have you tested your DNA?

Two small mountains in Staunton, VA were named for two County Tyrone mountains by homesick 18th century colonists. Betsy Bell and Mary Gray’s earlier origins lie in Scottish folklore. #CamdenBurialsDNA #history #genealogy #firstveterans

@alliethinks.bsky.social would love to know where your Nickell ancestors were living about 1700! Do you know? Any chance it was County Tyrone?

“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones.

Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.

Ha! Needed that

Truth

My ultimate fantasy!

Dear anyone in the whole world that I text or email with, my phone insists on putting an exclamation mark after the word, Camden! (< see?!) since I’m currently working on a project from the Battle of Camden!, you have been warned, and I refuse to keep manually changing it, OK? Thanks!

Just when I thought Spring was THINKING of peeking her head out of the darkness, BOOM - windchill!

#stillcold #upstate

Gotta love the internet!!

Stunning

Grrrr

Woooooow. Has anyone tried the new text search and transcriptions tool on FamilySearch? This is revolutionizing our ability to trace Colonial families through deeds for the Camden Burials DNA project!

#dna #revolutionarywar #figg #igg #colonialhistory #genealogy

Not necessarily. We were able to extra DNA from a young man's body hidden in a watery marsh for 100 years, found 2017. In decades past, whatever they did to wet remains destroyed the DNA. In 2009 they would have known better, so likely they'll be able to get DNA if they choose to use F/IGG.

So sad. We’ve had several bodies found in the water that have failed DNA extraction. I hope they’re able to get DNA from her.

Wow, that’s crazy

YouTube video by gabulosis A Daytona Beach Mystery: Who is Volusia County John Doe?

Thanks to YouTuber Gabulosis for the respectful, well researched video about Volusia Johnny Doe.

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Yeah, always loved buying my basics like T-shirts at target. But I’m done with them for sure.

I'm scared to even ask what the vibe was at #RootsTech around AI. This would be a tragedy.

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So true.

This sign is from Dick's Sporting Goods. Guess who is getting all my orders for workout clothing, tennis shoes, sporting goods, gifts, Carhartt, and winter wear from now on? Trying hard to replace Amazon and this feels like a great first step.

Where is this? I have a huge creek (really, a small river) across the street from my bedroom and the geese serenade me all afternoon sometimes. There are a lot of them flying through #upstate New York right now.

How did I COMPLETELY miss that last night was “spring forward.” Thought I had really overslept!

THIIIIIIS!

ROFL. You can’t imagine the garbage I’m encountering as we map out genetic matches to Revolutionary War soldiers. Lord, please deliver me from made up middle names!! And everyone’s early ancestor was on the Mayflower.