Radisson Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah SALALM 59 Family, Local and Micro-regional Histories and Their Impact on Understanding Ourselves 10 May 14 May i ii iii Plate 6, Codex Xolotl, analysis source: Codex Telleriano-Remensis source: Codex Magliabecchiano iv The Whys and Whats of Family History Research A Genealogists Retrospective v The Lambert Study Top three reasons for researching genealogy 1)to learn about who one is, or the discovery of self 2)to know my ancestors as people, which I interpret as an attempt to personalize history 3)for posterity or, to leave a mark vi vii source: Codex Xolotl Xolotl = dog Tomiyauh = tototl + miahuatl Cihuaxochitl = + flower Chiconcuauh = 7 + eagleXaltocan = xalli + tocatl Icpacxochitl Macuilcoatl Pantzontli No glyph viii ix ? x The self- perception dilemma xi Darwinian Skinnerian Popperian Dennettian xii noospherebiosphere xiii (cultural ancestry) (genetic ancestry) noospherebiosphere xiv Cultural ancestry Cultural anthropology Demography Evolutionary psychology History Religion Socialogy Contributes to self-realization by identifying attitudes, political opinions, food preferences, language and other attributes we inherit from our forebears xv EXTRAPOLATDEXTRAPOLATD TRADITIONALTRADITIONAL GENETICGENETIC Methods of Genealogical Research xvi Uncle Huetzin at the Battle of Tenochtitlan xvii (cultural ancestry) (genetic ancestry) noospherebiosphere xviii We Are Defined By Our Culture xix Genetic ancestry Traditional genealogy Molecular genealogy Contributes to self-realization by identifying deep ancestry and many other gene liked characteristics: disease, life-expectancy, cause of death etc. xx Deep Ancestry Identified by unique event polymorphisms UEPs 153 groups and subgroups Most DNA testing works with single tandem repeats (STRs), not with single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) UEP is a marker resulting from a mutation so rare that anyone who has, it inherited it from the same source. Identified by marking SNPs STR: short tandem repeat. A segment of DNA with a repeating sequence of base pairs SNP: single nucleotide polymorphism. A slowly mutating locus used to define haplotypes xxi Radisson Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah SALALM 59 Family, Local and Micro-regional Histories and Their Impact on Understanding Ourselves 10 May 14 May