More interestingly, these names lead us to the ideas, values, sentiments, fads, and whims of our ancestors. Sturdevant explains how to incorporate child-naming practices into your family history research. Not any summer camp, it's the Summer Circus Camp with Circus Minimus. Campers will practice tumbling, stilt walking, plate spinning, tight-rope walking, clowning, and more while developing skills in concentration, teamwork, coordination, and creativity. Students ages 8-11.
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219 to register. For years, scholars have speculated that President Thomas Jefferson had fathered the children of his slave, Sally Hemings. Recent discoveries using Y chromosome technology do show that, in at least one instance, a Jefferson male was the ancestral father of a Sally Hemings descendent. Combining genealogy and genetics, family health history expert Joan Kirchman Mitchell will discuss the application of X and Y chromosome technology to the research of your family's past. Mitchell will share examples, such as the how she traced thirteen generations of a French Canadian family, and demonstrate how you can apply biology and technology to your genealogical research.