The arithmetic of cuckoldry in family trees

Roger Voles

doi:10.1017/s0025557200179604

The arithmetic of cuckoldry in family trees

The Mathematical Gazette ◽

10.1017/s0025557200179604 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 90 (518) ◽

pp. 209-214 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Roger Voles

Keyword(s):

Family History ◽

Ready Access ◽

Family Trees

Family history research has become a very popular hobby during the last few years due to the ready access to records of births and marriages. Many people have rigorously traced their ancestors back to 1700 and earlier, corresponding to some 12 generations. The principal motivation of most amateur genealogists is to learn about the lives of their forebears and they trust these ‘legal’ records without question and do not usually acknowledge that cuckoldry may have occurred and that their true ancestors may not have been the ones recorded.

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Family History and the Global Politics of DNA

International Public History ◽

10.1515/iph-2019-0015 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Sarah Abel ◽

Krystal S. Tsosie

Keyword(s):

Family History ◽

Global Politics ◽

Private Interests ◽

Family Trees

AbstractThe global DNA ancestry industry appeals to various “markets”: diasporic groups seeking to reconstruct lost kinship links; adoptees looking for biological relatives; genealogists tracing their family trees; and those who are merely curious about what DNA can reveal about their identity. However, the language of empowerment and openness employed by DNA ancestry-testing companies in their publicity materials masks the important commercial and private interests at stake. Drawing particularly on the experiences of Native and Indigenous American communities, this article highlights some of the contradictions and dilemmas engendered by the industry, and questions to what extent its practices can empower users without infringing upon the rights of other groups.

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Родословная бурят хоринского рода харгана: на материале тибетоязычной автобиографии Галсан-Жинбы Дылгырова (1816–1872?)

Монголоведение (Монгол судлал) ◽

10.22162/2500-1523-2021-2-328-340 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 328-340

Author(s):

Elena G. Batonimaeva ◽

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

Family History ◽

Present Article ◽

Siberian Branch ◽

The Family ◽

Tibetan Studies ◽

Family Trees ◽

Culture And Language

Introduction. In the modern Buryat society, the knowledge of one’s own history, roots, culture, and language is becoming increasingly important. There is also a growing interest in genealogical research as many have started to search for data about their ancestors and their family trees in various archives. To illustrate, one may mention an increasing number of requests made for materials on the lineage and pedigrees of Buryats kept in the Center of Oriental Manuscripts and Xylographs of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist, and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the RAS. The aims of the present article are, firstly, to add to the data on the Khargana clan of Khori Buryats and, secondly, to investigate the background of Galsan-Zhinba Dylgirov (1816–1872?), an outstanding Buryat religious enlightener of the nineteenth century. The research is based on textological, comparative-historical and historical-biographical methods. Data. The article draws on the evidence contained in Dylgirov’s autobiography written in Tibetan in 1864-1872 and xylographed in the Tsugol Datsan. Dylgirov’s lineage is cited in the first chapter of the book and could be read only by few of those who were literate in Tibetan. Results. The lineage goes back to eight generations, including Dylgirov himself, and covers over 150 years. The origin of the family associates with the ancestor known as Shonoguleg who lived at the turn of the eighteenth century. Of particular interest are also legends and stories that supplement the family history. The examination of the lineage sheds light on the origin of the ethnonym Baatarzhan, a branch of the Khargana clan. Also, the family history contains new data on the Buryat self-governing administration before the first third of the nineteenth century. Clearly, the data of Dylgirov’s autobiography may be useful for further genealogical research.

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Schizophrenia on Paternal and Maternal Sides: An Analysis of Familial Factors

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.137.6.505 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 137 (6) ◽

pp. 505-509 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Miron Baron

Keyword(s):

Family History ◽

Chronic Schizophrenia ◽

Distribution Patterns ◽

Pedigree Data ◽

Polygenic Inheritance ◽

Familial Factors ◽

History Of ◽

Soft Spectrum ◽

Spectrum Disorders ◽

Family Trees

SummarySlater's model of assessing distribution patterns of ancestral secondary cases in family trees was applied to pedigree data on schizophrenia. Eighteen schizophrenic probands with at least two ill second-degree relatives were available for study. The distribution of unilateral to bilateral pairs of affected relatives did not deviate significantly from that expected in polygenic inheritance. Contrasting pedigrees with family history of chronic schizophrenia with pedigrees loaded with ‘soft spectrum’ disorders, i.e., borderline schizophrenia, did not alter the consistency of the data with polygenic transmission.

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Herbert Davenport Kay, 9 September 1893 - 24 November 1976

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ◽

10.1098/rsbm.1977.0011 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 23 ◽

pp. 283-310

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

Family History ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

Family Trees

Herbert Davenport Kay was born at Heaton Chapel, Lancashire, on 9 September 1893. During the last years of his life, he became interested in his family history, constructing detailed family trees and tracing his ancestry to the eighteenth century. The Kay family had moved to Cheadle (Cheshire) from Bury in Lancashire in the early nineteenth century. They were descended from John Kay the inventor, also known as ‘Kay of Bury’ who in 1733 took out a patent for his fly-shuttle and later invented the extended lathe and a card-making machine. On his mother’s side, the Davenports were descended from yeoman farmers in Cheshire. It was a source of quiet amusement to Herbert Kay to learn from his archival searches that one of his maternal great-grandmothers, Mary Barlow ( née Joliffe), was said to be illegitimate. Certainly the sum left to her by her father remained in Chancery because of the absence of a marriage certificate.

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Language Onset and Concomitant Speech and Language Problems in Subgroups of Stutterers and Their Siblings

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/jshr.2504.482 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 482-486 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Robin A. Seider ◽

Keith L. Gladstien ◽

Kenneth K. Kidd

Keyword(s):

Family History ◽

Same Sex ◽

Speech And Language ◽

Negative Family History ◽

Late Talkers ◽

Language Problems ◽

History Of ◽

Language Onset

Time of language onset and frequencies of speech and language problems were examined in stutterers and their nonstuttering siblings. These families were grouped according to six characteristics of the index stutterer: sex, recovery or persistence of stuttering, and positive or negative family history of stuttering. Stutterers and their nonstuttering same-sex siblings were found to be distributed identically in early, average, and late categories of language onset. Comparisons of six subgroups of stutterers and their respective nonstuttering siblings showed no significant differences in the number of their reported articulation problems. Stutterers who were reported to be late talkers did not differ from their nonstuttering siblings in the frequency of their articulation problems, but these two groups had significantly higher frequencies of articulation problems than did stutterers who were early or average talkers and their siblings.

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