[ExI] Top Soil Depletion

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> 

>>... Fun aside: a bunch of them did AncestryDNA, which is how we found out about their existence up there.

>...That's very strange.  People who don't use cell phones but did do DNA
testing.  Why?  

Keith I don't know all the deetz on it, but I have a third cousin and genealogy collaborator who is a PhD, now working at the University of Central Florida.  She is a former Mennonite, but left that organization.  She knew about them somehow, as they are also 4th cousins to her.  She made contact with them, gained their trust, perhaps because of similarities between Mennonites and Hutterites.  I don't know much about that stuff, no more than Sam Cooke knew about a science book or the French he took.  A research grant bought them a bunch of these DNA kits in 2013, which my cousin took up there and had them use.  The results are fascinating.

The contact who ran the show for us has parents who are double second cousins to each other, and both pairs of his grandparents are second cousins to each other.  They get it as far as the drawbacks of overbreeding.  People don't go in there, but sometimes they come out, which is how they ended up distantly related to me.  One did, in (we think) about 1810 or so.

Regarding computer skills, the guy who was our contact up there works for the county as a conservation officer.  He has a land line in his office.  I have never called him and don't have his number.  I don't know if a land line can still be used to get a website, but I assume the old telephone modem would work.  

Does anyone here know anyone who uses a telephone modem?  Or knows if those are still operable?  Or knows any reason why they couldn't still work?

Keith I am sending you some interesting data offlist.

spike