Imperial Women of Rome

This book explores the constraints and opportunities of the women in the Roman emperor’s family from 35 BCE, when Octavia and Livia received unprecedented privileges from the state, to 235 CE, when Julia Mamaea was assassinated with her son Severus Alexander. Historical vignettes feature Agrippina the Younger, Domitia Longina, and some others as the book analyzes the history of Rome’s most eminent women in legal, religious, military, and other key settings of the principate. It also examines the women’s exemplarity through imaging as well as their presence in the city of Rome and in the empire. Evidence comes from coins, inscriptions, papyri, sculpture, and law codes as well as ancient authors. Numerous illustrations, maps, genealogical trees, and detailed tables and appendices complement the text. The whole reveals imperial women’s fluctuating but persistent marginalization and lack of agency despite their potential, even as it elucidates Rome’s imperial power, legal system, family ideology, religion and imperial cult, court, capital city, and military customs.

THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE PATRIARCHS WITH HISTORICAL FIGURES

The author correctly identifies the Patriarchs of monotheistic religions with historical figures of the past based on the paradigm of a short chronology of the world and linking events to unique celestial phenomena reflected in Chronicles and Scriptural. The identification of the Patriarchs is based on the analysis of data from the genealogical trees of Jesus Christ from Lucas, Matthew, mosaics of the Church of Chora, the genealogical tree of the Prophet Muhammad and lists of the Kings of the Great Bulgaria.

Genealogy in the 19th Century: Obligation and Means, Versus Experience and Emotion

Genealogy and genealogical self-awareness were very important elements of the frame of a noble society’s fortress in the 19th century. The analysis of some genealogical trees, schemes, etc. and the diary-memoir of a noble woman Gabrielė Giunterytė-Puzinienė showed several genealogical aspects treasured by nobles. Family members who were high-ranking soldiers, patrons, or belonged to the clergy were treated very respectfully. Having a wide net of family ties and high-status relatives were a remarkable tool for showing ones family’s origin and position in the society. Wealth played an important role as well. Various official and legal documents, individual contemplations, memories and memoirs of other persons or armorials created by Szymon Okolski and Bartosh Paprocki served as remarkable sources for keeping the genealogical memory of families alive. Genealogical trees, schemes etc. could be treated as more reliable sources for genealogical self-awareness because of the elimination of the subjective viewpoint, as we can face it in the abovementioned diary. Nevertheless, the Giedraitis Family case negated this statement. G. Giunterytė-Puzinienė’s diary-memoir is an extraordinary source for exploring genealogical identity. Genealogy is a vivid and detailed story in this book. One can smell, hear, and touch it. Collective holidays, events, and various forms of recreation became tools for strengthening the genealogical self-awareness and family memory.

A IMIGRAÇÃO ITALIANA E A TRAJETÓRIA DA FAMÍLIA DE BONA SARTOR EM URUSSANGA, SC * THE ITALIAN IMMIGRATION AND THE TRAJECTORY OF THE DE BONA SARTOR’S FAMILY IN URUSSANGA, SC

Este artigo propõe uma contextualização histórica da imigração italiana para Urussanga, SC, través da análise da trajetória da família de Bona Sartor, oriunda da província de Belluno, Itália. O período analisado corresponde ao século XIX, com a crise socioeconômica e a grande emigração italiana, e à primeira metade do século XX, com o estabelecimento da família de Matteo e Domenica de Bona Sartor em Urussanga. Para recompor essa trajetória, foram utilizadas diversas fontes, como registros de nascimento, matrimônio e óbito, históricos familiares, árvores genealógicas, fotografias, entrevistas e dados antropológicos. Os estudos genealógicos e sobre os costumes do passado revelam adaptações e inovações nas dinâmicas familiares, podendo nos legar inspiração para buscarmos melhores condições de vida.*This article proposes a historical contextualization of Italian immigration to Urussanga, SC, through the analysis of the trajectory of the Bona Sartor family from the province of Belluno, Italy. The period analyzed corresponds to the nineteenth century, with the socioeconomic crisis and the great Italian emigration, and the first half of the twentieth century, with the establishment of the family of Matteo and Domenica de Bona Sartor inUrussanga. To compose this trajectory, several sources were used, such as birth, marriage and death records, family histories, genealogical trees, photographs, interviews and anthropological data. Genealogical studies and the customs of the past reveal adaptations and innovations in family dynamics, and can inspire us to seek better living conditions.

The Author’s Childhood.

Place of birth—Character of the district—Tuckahoe—Origin of the name—Choptank river—Time of birth—Genealogical trees—Mode of counting time—Names of grandparents—Their position—Grandmother especially esteemed—‘Born to good luck’—Sweet potatoes—Superstition—The log cabin—Its charms—Separating children—Author’s aunts—Their names—First knowledge of being a slave—‘Old master’—Griefs and joys of childhood—Comparative happiness of the slave-boy...

Screening of BRCA2 mutated men for detection of prostate cancer: Preliminary results from a national high volume cancer center.

e16567 Background: Up to 10% of cases of Prostate Cancer (PCa) are hereditary. Germline pathogenic mutations in BRCA2 gene confer the highest risk (2.5 to 8.6 fold in men ≤ 65 yr). Beyond periodic Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) dosage and digital rectal examination (DRE), a targeted screening for carriers is still undefined. Prostate Health Index (PHI), a combination of the tPSA, fPSA and proPSA tests, may be a more accurate biomarker than PSA only to detect PCa. We evaluated how to better screen BRCA2 mutated men for PCa. Methods: We reviewed the genealogical trees of all women tested positive for germline BRCA2 pathogenic mutation at our clinic. We offered targeted BRCA2 mutational analysis to all first/second degree relative men between 40 and 69 yr. A targeted screening program (annual PSA and PHI dosages and DRE) was proposed to all men tested positive. In case of PSA and/or PHI values out of range ( > 4ng/ml and > 20, respectively) we proceeded with a multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging (mpMRI) and fusion biopsy of suspected lesions. Results: From June 2008 to October 2018 610 breast/ovarian cancer patients had BRCA test: 35 (5.7%) tested positive for BRCA1 pathogenic mutation, 32 (5.2%) for BRCA2 pathogenic mutation. From October 2017 90 relatives were checked for the familial mutation and 24 (27%) (12 women, 12 men) tested positive for BRCA2 mutation. All the 12 men (median age 48 yr, IQR 44 to 60) accepted to join our screening program. During the first year all men had negative DRE. Median PSA was 0.70 (IQR 0.43 to 1.02), median PHI was 17.56 (IQR 11.85 to 24.06). One patient with out of range PHI value already had mpMRI resulted negative. During the second year 4 men underwent screening so far: they had negative DRE. Median PSA was 0.57 (IQR 0.38-0.77), median PHI was 16.88 (IQR 11.87-21.90). Two men had PHI out of range and will undergo mpMRI. Conclusions: An accurate review of the genealogical trees of breast/ovarian cancer BRCA2 mutated patients allows to identify male relatives potentially carriers of the same mutation. These men have a high lifetime risk of PCa and require an appropriate screening, currently absent. Our approach may be leveraged as proof of concept of selection and screening program in carriers of BRCA2 mutations.

Projekty genealogiczne Fundacji Kultury i Dziedzictwa Ormian Polskich

Genealogical Projects of the Foundation of Culture and Heritage of Polish ArmeniansThe Foundation of the Culture and Heritage of Polish Armenians located in Warsaw collects both original and copied birth certificate registries dated at the times from 17th to 20th centuries and coming from Armenian Catholic parishes. The Foundation catalogues and translates them from Kipchak, Armenian and Latin into Polish. Additionally, it collects information on grave inscriptions and photographs. All data is being stored electronically and published online. It serves the purpose of compiling genealogical trees of Armenian families living in Poland (over 5000 people in 9 generations) and creating an online biographical dictionary of Polish Armenians (WikiOrmianie, over 1200 biograms).

Killing the Big Snake

This chapter takes the story of the Big Snake, a famous oral tradition among maroon descendants in the Trombetas river (called mocambeiros in the region), as a symbol of their relocation to new residential spaces below the waterfalls, where they would fully enjoy their hard-won freedom right after abolition. The chapter places the narrative in conversation with “outside sources that can be checked and certified as independent,” such as police and governmental reports, travel accounts, genealogical trees, and interviews with the mocambeiros. With this I seek to generate a dialogue between narrative and written sources and to dig as deep as possible into its key natural and topological symbols. I considered the tradition of the Big Snake a “hypothesis,” a source that could enter into dialogue with, and even correct, “other perspectives just as much as other perspectives [could] correct” it. The story of the Big Snake also uses the river’s natural geography to sustain an interpretation of the maroons’ origins that emphasized autonomy and community. Finally, it bears witness to the sheer centrality of the natural landscape for the viability of maroon communities in Amazonia.