I love maps. The proper word for it is cartophile, although I don’t really care for it. Mapini is somewhat better. Guess I’ll have to come up with something on my own. (If you have any ingenious proposals, let me know.) The National Geographic Society has been producing maps, often beautiful and graphically-oriented, ever since [...]
Archive for the ‘JOHNSON’ Category
Molecular Genealogy
Posted: November 5, 2011 in Databases, Genetics, HILL, JOHNSON, JOHNSTONE, ScotlandOne of my newer hobbies is learning about human genetics. I’ve been interested ever since hearing about the Molecular Genealogy project at BYU while I was attending the National Genealogical Society’s conference in 2001. It was in Portland, not too far away from my abode at the time. The only reasons I didn’t give a [...]
Newcastle-upon-Tyne – Capital of Scotland 1138-1157 With a somewhat close relation, at least according to testing on our Y chromosomes, tracing his paternal family to Newcastle upon Tyne1 in northern England, I’ve become more of an Anglophile, following the news and history of the area bordering Scotland much more closely. It was a man named [...]
George Johnstone (1730-1787)
Posted: February 7, 2011 in American Revolution, HILL, JOHNSON, JOHNSTONE, United StatesDNA testing shows some sort of relationship among many men named Johnson and Hill in the United States, possibly linking back to southern Scotland. Therefore, I have been looking through a few biographical books such as the American National Biography series and the Dictionary of American Biography. This will be a continuing series of posts, [...]
