According to family lore, when their business needed money my great-grandmother Charlotte Langermann Thannhauser, on my German Jewish side, fixed up her sister Lina with her husband’s half brother in order to get Lina’s dowry invested in the family enterprise. Not such an uncommon occurrance. I was able to convince Lina’s great-granddaughter on the straight maternal line to test at 23andme. She is almost doubly my third cousin, sharing DNA from the Thannhauser and Langermann lines but not Engel.
Archive | 2013
Chromosome Mapping Tool Released
The DNA segment chromosome mapping tool is now released for all to try. This is the current URL:
http://kittymunson.com/dna/ChromosomeMapper.php
and the documentation is here:
http://blog.kittycooper.com/chromosome-mapper/
Thanks to all the testers, I think the bugs have been found and fixed. The next release will have some enhancements so make your suggestions here. So far I expect to add the following features:
- ignore the side column so alternately chose a side and color
- better error reporting and more bullet proof
- add a third option and thus line on the chromosomes for unknown or both
- add a note column that is part of what appears on mouse over with the MRCA
- allow selection of colors
- make a version designed to show overlaps on unknown relatives
First version of Chromosome Mapping Tool
I am looking for more testers and some feedback on the colors. Click the read more for more images. Yes my data has a small bug for chromosome 1 and 9 :). In the actual tool mousing over the color tells you the ancestor, the segment size, and start and stop points. The actual output is much larger than the image below.
Harvesting Macadamia Nuts
My neighbors’ macademia nut trees are laden with more nuts than they can use so I googled and found this great Utube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNAtcbz1_N0
Here is the summary of what I learned from all the articles I googled:
Drying the Excess Figs
One thing I truly love about our garden in our new home in the San Diego area (Lakeside) is all the magnificent mature fruit trees
. Fresh figs are my favorite.
Our fig tree pictured on the right must be at least 60 feet tall. See its size compared to my car on the far bottom left.
I had too many figs in the first crop this year and there is an enormous second crop on the tree so I googled around for how to dry figs and decided I liked this link the best: