Batch 147 created

[Paul_Sheats]

I will be off work on summer vacation...

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Lucky

[melissa]

ARGH! Wrong emails from FTDNA!!

Tonight I had three emails from FTDNA but my initial excitement was almost immediately squelched They were just notices of new product purchases by project members. I thought maybe it was my dad's 37-67 from 145, or the 12 markers we've been waiting for from 147.

And my tomatoes are all doing great, night temps are on the way back up, squash is all OK, too. LOL, we gamble every year. If you wait til 'they' say it's ok to put tomatoes in, you might not end up with any ripe fruit by the time September is under way. I've lost them all mid June before, and had them all freeze in mid Septembr. I can see the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada from my kitchen window, and we're at about 4550'.

Stevo, congrats to your wife

[lgmayka]

Today my wife became a U.S. citizen!

Congratulations to her! She's Russian, isn't she? Pozdravlienia!

[Stevo]

Congratulations to her! She's Russian, isn't she? Pozdravlienia!

Da . . . er, yes, she is.

My wife is a native of Volgograd and a graduate of the technical university there where her father was a professor.

She is Lithuanian/Byelorussian-Jewish on her dad's side and Polish-Ukrainian on her mom's.

[Stevo]

Great!!
Good, I'll have some entertainment while I'm stuck at work all summer

Congrats to your wife on her citizenship!

Elise

Thanks, Elise, from my wife and me.

Also, I'm glad someone finds my posts entertaining.

[Stevo]

Tonight I had three emails from FTDNA but my initial excitement was almost immediately squelched They were just notices of new product purchases by project members. I thought maybe it was my dad's 37-67 from 145, or the 12 markers we've been waiting for from 147.

And my tomatoes are all doing great, night temps are on the way back up, squash is all OK, too. LOL, we gamble every year. If you wait til 'they' say it's ok to put tomatoes in, you might not end up with any ripe fruit by the time September is under way. I've lost them all mid June before, and had them all freeze in mid Septembr. I can see the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada from my kitchen window, and we're at about 4550'.

Stevo, congrats to your wife

Where are you? Reno?

Thanks for the kind words.

May your produce grow abundantly and be large and flavorful.

[Stevo]

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Lucky

Yeah, it's one of the rewards of being a public school teacher: summers off.

For the last nine years or so I have taught summer school every summer.

This summer is mine.

I'm going to catch some crabs and some fish, do some hiking, and maybe chase my paternal ancestors' paper trail up in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia.

Oh . . . and we will probably visit Niagara Falls, Ontario, as well, because that is one of my favorite places in the world.

[M.O'Connor]

Great stuff hearing about your Family's Citizenship success Stevo.

June 9th is my new SNP Results Target date.

Also my wife has just sealed her dna samples in an envelope, and I'm off to the post-office to mail it.

I'll be back!

[Stevo]

Great stuff hearing about your Family's Citizenship success Stevo.

June 9th is my new SNP Results Target date.

Also my wife has just sealed her dna samples in an envelope, and I'm off to the post-office to mail it.

I'll be back!

Thanks, brother.

My SNP target date (Batch 155) is July 17.

Glad to hear your wife is being tested.

Getting my wife and her family to test is proving more difficult than I thought.

They suffer from a tradition of fear and secrecy instilled in them by years of anti-Semitic persecution in Russia and the Soviet Union. They're not in a hurry to give up too much information.

[M.O'Connor]

Lots of time for testing.

I get my Mtdna H refinement July 3rd.

[Stevo]

Lots of time for testing.

I get my Mtdna H refinement July 3rd.

I think I want to focus now on recruiting more members for one of my surname projects. My primary surname project is actually the Steffen Project. We only have six members. We need many more (especially since none of us match!). I joined it because of suspected but unconfirmed descent from a man whose surname was originally the German Stephan (Steffen) but who changed it to Stevens (also Stephens).

That can occupy my mind while I wait for my Deep SNP-R1b thingamabob.

It is interesting that my haplotype is much more common in northern Germany and in Scandinavia than anywhere else.

Then again, my connection to the man whose surname was Stephan is tenuous at best.

We'll see what turns up.

[Stevo]

Oh, BTW, my markers 26-37 are due today. Of course, I understand that date is a ballpark lab estimate, but I hope they come in.

It will give me more to play with.

[Stevo]

Still waiting for markers 26-37, but the evening is young.

Am I the only nut still posting in the good ol' Batch 147 thread?

1,000 replies is the current goal, folks.

[M.O'Connor]

659 and counting....This is a real batch buster...

[Stevo]

659 and counting....This is a real batch buster...

Yep.

And there are still results pending from this batch.

Like your SNP and some others, and my markers 26-37.

So Batch 147 is still active.