"The people who can't stop farming." It's sooooo true. I have tomatoes in pots in my living room window. (the only big enough south facing one). Thank you so very much. All this time I thought I was just garden variety crazy for my attachment to my animals, large and small. Now I see it's a DNA problem--I'm hard wired that way. The goat story was hilarious. On Nov 18, 2011, at 2:00 AM, scotch-irish-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. DNA Sales (lmerle@comcast.net) > 2. Re: SCOTCH-IRISH Digest, Vol 6, Issue 269 (Nancy Kipp) > 3. Re: Sorry no lookups today (lmerle@comcast.net) > 4. Re: Sorry no lookups today (rootsgirl50@aol.com) > 5. Re: Sorry no lookups today (Donnalangbank) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:33:57 +0000 (UTC) > From: lmerle@comcast.net > Subject: [S-I] DNA Sales > To: List <scotch-irish@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: > <700337244.2673524.1321540437785.JavaMail.root@sz0165a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hi folks, the DNA lists are all abuzz as the various firms announce > holiday sales. > > Family Tree DNA is useful for Y chromosome (male Line) testing. You > join (free) a surname project, which gives you an administrator who > may be knowledgable. (If not, dump that project and find another). > By joining the Ulster DNA project your results will show up in this > huge project, sorted next to matches and near matches. http://www.familytreedna.com/products.aspx > for pricing. It also does mother line (mitochondrial) testing and > autosomal, when some of the DNA in all your chromosomes is tested. > then you use software to look for cousins with whom you share > strands of matching DNA. Very new. > > 23andme is another firm. It started out doing medical testing. It > allows you to see what kind of genes you may have and if you stay > active you will continuously get new results, well, until the chip > is obsolete that was used to test you. I need to upgrade to the > newer chip. Among other things I may learn if I have an Alzheimers > gene. They do not yet test comprehensively for this. Apparently many > genes could be involved. However .... I'm afraid!!!!! <grin>. They > also will give you your Y chromosome (if you have one) and your > mitochondrial. They also have autosomal results and probably the > world's largest customer base of people trying to find cousins this > way. https://www.23andme.com/ . If you want you can also participate > in various studies (meaning you answer questions) to further our > research. Kind of like being a lab rat, but better educated and > probably less fur.... > > There are other firms too. Can anyone supply us with a few? > > It pays to google...... I found this site offering free testing to > BROWNs of Scots descent: > http://www.brownsociety.org/FreeScotsTests.htm > > Think you are Scots? EthnoAncestry has a test to prove it. This is a > bit controversial. > http://www.ethnoancestry.com/ > http://www.scotlandsfamily.com/dna-testing.htm explains what they're > looking for. > > There is also an Irish hedge school for learning Irish DNA: > http://web.mac.com/irishpat/IrishRootsCafe/Irish_DNA.html > > It has a Youtube video explaining how easy it is. > > I also found a website with information on the Workhouse. It > includes a cookbook of prison recipes. Doesn't sound terribly > appealing..... > http://www.workhouses.org.uk/ > > Linda Merle > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:51:20 -0800 > From: Nancy Kipp <nkipp@san.rr.com> > Subject: Re: [S-I] SCOTCH-IRISH Digest, Vol 6, Issue 269 > To: scotch-irish@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <31E2DA50-E7CC-48A3-8C81-4371988F97BD@san.rr.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Linda, > We just lost our dog. Please hug your cat for us! > Nancy > > > Nancy Kipp > nkipp@san.rr.com > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:53:55 +0000 (UTC) > From: lmerle@comcast.net > Subject: Re: [S-I] Sorry no lookups today > To: scotch-irish@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <1444569706.2674769.1321541635687.JavaMail.root@sz0165a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hi Warwick, I think my daughter really warrants the sainthood. She > adopted a dog from the pound. He got leukemia. Needed $7000 worth of > chemo. She had to get a second job to pay for it. Now that's > devotion. I have a neighbor who has a cat with a cleft palate and > doesn't eat normally too good. She's a nurse, thank God. I suspect > they'd repair the palate for only a few thousand at this place where > my cat is. > > I think my daughter's dog is worth more than my eleven year old > car .... hmm, my cat probably is worth more too. > > Trying to reduce guilt due to an off topic post...... The Scotch > Irish can be quite fond of their animals. I have sometimes called my > family "the people who couldn't stop farming.' We have a funny story > about a cousin of my mother, a very proper lady married to a local > mortician, whose goat developed an intestinal disorder. There was no > way to get him to the vet but in the new hearse. So she loaded him > in, she in high heels, hat, gloves (it was the 40s) and off she > drove. Unfortunately goat got a diarhea attack on the way. They > needed a new hearse. I don't think he divorced her, but it was close. > > Linda Merle > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Warwick Beadle" <warwick30@gmail.com> > To: scotch-irish@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 12:27:52 AM > Subject: Re: [S-I] Sorry no lookups today > > Hi Linda, > > I'm nominating you for Sainthood. Take as long as you need off. Will > allow me to clean up my inbox in the meantime :-) > > Hugs, > > Warwick > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:45 PM, <lmerle@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Hi folks, Hopefully tomorrow. Today my one cat was hit by a car and I >> spent the day driving him from the local vet to large regional vet >> center >> and writing checks. However he will survive. Lost his tail, had a >> part of >> his femur in his hip socket replaced, badly dislocated jaw fixed >> itself. My >> daughter had to get a second job to pay for her pound dog's chemo >> last year. >> >> Exhaustedly, >> >> Linda Merle >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:23:26 -0500 (EST) > From: rootsgirl50@aol.com > Subject: Re: [S-I] Sorry no lookups today > To: scotch-irish@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <8CE7353FC3DA647-1380-B1B86@Webmail-d106.sysops.aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Linda.... > > God Bless your little one ..... and to you also for being a 'Great > Mom' .... > > my 2 Kat Kids are like real kids to me .... and I would do anything > for them also !!! > > > Mill Ryan > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lmerle <lmerle@comcast.net> > To: List <scotch-irish@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wed, Nov 16, 2011 10:47 pm > Subject: [S-I] Sorry no lookups today > > > Hi folks, Hopefully tomorrow. Today my one cat was hit by a car and > I spent the > day driving him from the local vet to large regional vet center and > writing > checks. However he will survive. Lost his tail, had a part of his > femur in his > hip socket replaced, badly dislocated jaw fixed itself. My daughter > had to get a > second job to pay for her pound dog's chemo last year. > > Exhaustedly, > > Linda Merle > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of > the message > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:40:32 +0000 > From: Donnalangbank <donnalangbank@aol.com> > Subject: Re: [S-I] Sorry no lookups today > To: "scotch-irish@rootsweb.com" <scotch-irish@rootsweb.com> > Cc: List <scotch-irish@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <98F00993-CD41-45B0-A783-C80B8117254E@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > That's sad Linda. Sending hugs across the water!!! > Donna > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 17 Nov 2011, at 03:45, lmerle@comcast.net wrote: > >> Hi folks, Hopefully tomorrow. Today my one cat was hit by a car and >> I spent the day driving him from the local vet to large regional >> vet center and writing checks. However he will survive. Lost his >> tail, had a part of his femur in his hip socket replaced, badly >> dislocated jaw fixed itself. My daughter had to get a second job to >> pay for her pound dog's chemo last year. >> >> Exhaustedly, >> >> Linda Merle >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the SCOTCH-IRISH list administrator, send an email to > SCOTCH-IRISH-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the SCOTCH-IRISH mailing list, send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH@rootsweb.com > . > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of SCOTCH-IRISH Digest, Vol 6, Issue 270 > ********************************************