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Spilling the Beans on My DNA

DNA strand

DNA strand from pixabay moving to the Ancestors in Aprons newsletter.

MOVING DNA INFO TO THE NEWSLETTER

I will NOT tell you about DNA tests and DNA results at Ancestors in Aprons website.  Where will I spill the beans??

I have recently received the results of my Ancestry DNA test. And guess where I come from?  (Hint: You can find out in a previous newsletter, and updates in this week’s newsletter

Aside from the fact that trying to understand what the DNA report says, and the fact that it provides an enormous distraction from the ancestors I’m trying to write about here—

Well, it is fascinating.  But I have decided that although I am distracted, Ancestors in Aprons is not going to get distracted  by this new toy. Ancestors in Aprons is about stories. So I may mention my new findings if DNA analysis can add some understanding to the stories I’m telling, but it will not become a major topic.

I’m not hiding anything from you. I’m just sharing in a different place.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE WEEKLY ANCESTORS IN APRONS NEWSLETTER

If you want to*:

  • Follow my DNA journey;
  • Get a summary of each week’s posts;
  • Take a peek at past posts;
  • See an updated list of ancestral surnames in my line;
  • Cook like an ancestor from a list of categorized recipes;
  • Peek behind the scenes at how I work with other people to do research;
  • And read frequent bonus content.

Now using DNA to help tell the story of my family. Subscribe to the newsletter for Ancestors in Aprons. http://eepurl.com/w0msD

*Even though there is a long list of valuable content–it takes up only a small space in your mailbox.

If you’re not sure, you can take a look at last week’s newsletter here, and find out where I come from or this week’s newsletter and what family names I’m matching with.

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If you have not yet subscribed to Ancestors in Aprons newsletter, let me tell you why it could be worth clicking on the subscribe button.

Tithingman

Tithingman illustration from Stories of the Pilgrims by Margaret B. Pumphrey

  1. You will be reminded once a week of the posts about family stories and recipes and food of our ancestors. No need to go searching for the website each week. Just click a link in the newsletter.
  2. The Ancestors in Aprons newsletter is free.
  3. It is easy to subscribe and I will NEVER use your email for any purpose other than sending the weekly newsletter.
  4. There is extra content in the Ancestors in Aprons newsletter that is not on the Ancestors in Aprons website.  (I can’t tell you what the content is, because you have to have your secret decoder ring to find out that information. But when you subscribe you become the first kid in your neighborhood to know the TOP SECRET INFORMATION.)
  5. The Ancestors in Aprons newsletter is free. (Oh, I said that?  Well some people don’t believe things until they read them more than once.)  It also does not contain any annoying advertising. Or even any non-annoying advertising.
  6. When you subscribe to the Ancestors in Aprons newsletter, you make me happy, and that will make you happy too! Don’t believe me? Try it and see.
  7. A sampling of recipes are listed in each newsletter so you can find ethnic or vintage recipes that you may have missed–or may have been published before you started reading Ancestors in Aprons.
  8. Family Names.  My ever-growing list of the family names of my ancestors just might turn out to include a family name of YOUR ancestors. Hi cousin!
  9. You know I was kidding up there in #4, right? Because sometimes we have fun. Just to remind you that genealogy doesn’t have to always be deadly serious–even if we spend a lot of time in cemeteries. But there really IS extra content in the newsletter–a loyalty bonus for subscribers.
  10. Uh, well, I can really only think of 9–and that’s with a little repetition. But it is easy to subscribe.

So, to prove how easy it is, click here.

Piece of cake!

Close up of Swiss carrot cake

Close up of Aargau carrot cake