The Genealogist

Greek Antiques, Amazon Women - Absorbed Into Vast Asia

By Derek Dashwood

So, here you are in a Greek antiques shop far north of Athens but still in Greece, in Macedonia. You Hold two figurines: one of a Greek Amazon Female Warrior, the other a model of an princess from Persia.

You wonder what these two have in common, so you ask the shop keeper. It is a quiet moment, so he sits you down and makes you a cup of tea, and tells you his story.

His ancestors are of the family of those who were close to Alexander the Great. He leans forward and as if in telling a secret, he talks to you of the most amazing story of his life. He must tell his story to one who will understand.

You agree on your understanding and discretion. He tells you he recently met the most amazing relative a man could ever have imagined. He explains that his beautiful young distant cousin is visiting from thousands of miles to the east. She has been given evidence by a swab of her mouth that her greatest grandmother came from this eastern bastion of western Europe.

She is curious about this civilization that brought her ancient relative from here. This young woman lives to the east, in the middle of great Asia. She is golden, and has the eyes of a Mongol, but her eyes are blue and she has blond streak in her hair. A medical team up from Athens took a tongue swab from her, my new friend said: her blood, or DNA they called it, and mine match, on our mother\’s side.

Thus, again the ancient east meets the ancient west. His cousin from the east in central Asia came to visit his village, and, she hoped, find unknown relatives. He, as did she, can marvel at the idea that she is the serene renewal of a long unproven legend of ancient Greek Amazon women warriors. These really are two distant cousins who look so different.

Yet they both display proof that their greatest grandmothers survived and thrived. The Amazons did not prevail with a victory over the fleet of Persia that battle, and were forced to flee for their lives.

So we marvel while our modern descendant of female warrior blood and her Greek cousin give a shy smile to each other. We should remember that from this small corner of south east Europe while peoples to the north and west still were coming out of caves and down from the trees.

These first civilized peoples of Europe lived in Greek columned mansions of far superior buildings and elegance than they had seen, outside of ancient Egypt.

Yet Greece brought ideals of democracy that permeate western Asia to this day. The name of Alexander is spoken with respect as his short reign was honest and beneficial to most. Many men through to the Indus River are named Alexander, or for his wife from Persia, Roxanne.

The saying it is all Greek to me may have come as so many languages and cultures adapted to Greek ideals over such a vast area, that any new law was all in Greek to them. There is that feeling for us from the west that here is where it all began.

When the Amazon women were granted their own ship, to be entirely operated by Greek Amazons, it was a great honor. They were treated royally before leaving to defend Athens, once more, from mighty Persia.

However, it was not to be, and in all records of this era the mighty navy of Persia swept the Amazon ship northwards away from Greece. They were pursued past Greek Byzantium, and to the far eastern shores of the Black Sea. Here, they had to fight their way east, and fade into into history.

It was only recently that Western researchers took a tongue swab from a young girl who lives in a yurt in central Asia. She has blond streaks in her black hair. Her very pretty Mongol face has blue eyes. The scientists featured her on television recently and she was so proud when the swab came back from Germany.

She is of Amazon blood. How proudly she rode the white pony, her mighty white horse like Alexander, around the village circle, all the others cheering her on, her smile so radiant. She, and they, understood that she was a princess from the times of Alexander the Great, whose fabled wife Roxanne came from lands to the south.

And now she has returned over the path of her greatest grandmother, home to her maternal roots. Our new little Roxanne should be treated and welcomed as this wonderful mix of east and west.

The Amazon Warrior Ship was pushed north by the mighty navy of Persia, who then defeated the main Greek Navy but also pursued the Amazon ship to the east coast of the Black Sea. Here, these powerful women, resplendent with jewels and diamonds as well as swords and armor, fought their way east through people still loyal to Persia, and Greek history books tell they passed from history. Until now.

About The Author

Derek Dashwood loves the combining of science into the humanities to measure evolution and the mixing of ideals and you surely see it here at
Greek Historical Antiques

Resources At The Canadian Genealogy Centre

By Benjamin Brook

The Canadian Genealogy Centre is an online resource for anyone in the world who wants to identify their Canadian ancestors and learn more about them. A variety of databases and records are available through the Canadian Genealogy Centre. This useful guide will help you navigate the site.

What You Can Do

The most popular activity on the Canadian Genealogy Centre is searching for ancestors. By using the Centre\’s combined genealogical database search, you can search for a wide variety of government records. Since the records were collected and maintained by the Library and Archives Canada, they have a high degree of reliability and trustworthiness.

Ancestors Search Database

Using the Canadian Genealogy Centre\’s Ancestors Search database, you can search for events like births, marriage bonds made between 1779 and 1865, deaths, and divorces between 1841 and 1968. Researchers can search land records like the Gaspe Land Commission records from 1626 to 1841, Lower Canada land petitions from 1826 to 1865, and Western Land Grants from 1870 to 1930. This is by far the most extensive database available to Canadians researching their genealogy.

Searchable immigration and citizenship registration records at the Canadian Genealogy Centre include records for the Montreal Circuit Courts from 1851 to 1945; Home Children records from 1869 to 1930; the Montreal Emigrant Society Passage Book of 1832; records of immigrants from the Russian Empire and immigrants at Grosse-Ile from 1832 to 1937, and generalized immigration records from 1925 to 1935.

Searchable military records include lists of courts martial and soldiers from the First World War and soldiers from the South African War.

Census Records

Old census records provide a wealth of information about your Canadian ancestors. Census returns collected in 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1906, and 1911 list every individual by name and provide each person\’s age, sex, birth country or province, racial or ethnic origin, occupation, and marital status. Census records for 1901 and 1911 also include the individual\’s birth date, year of immigration, and location of land. Be advised that the 1851 Census is incomplete, as portions of the records were destroyed.

Newspaper Obituaries

Newspaper obituaries are also available through the Canadian Genealogy Centre\’s online databases. If you find a newspaper obituary for one of your ancestors, you may be very fortunate indeed. Many obituaries give details about the deceased\’s survivors, their military service, their employment, and names of family members especially spouses who predeceased the individual.

The Canadian Genealogy Centre is an outstanding research for the amateur genealogy researcher.

About The Author

If you would like more information about genealogy please visit my website Mo. Goodman Genealogy

Home DNA Tests Do Exist!

By Sean Tan

When you hear DNA testing, you might be thinking of a very highbrow sophisticated procedure that goes on behind closed labs and all that. But while a portion of this is actually true, it is not necessary that a DNA testing must be as unreachable as all that. Particularly now, when we have home deoxyribonucleic acid test methods available to us. Yes, you heard that right DNA ancestry testing. Now, you can test the paternity of a child at home. But what does home DNA heritage testing actually mean? Let\’s find out.

DNA testing great Identigene sells home testing kits. These kits are delivered to your doorstep. Basically, this kit contains the materials you will need to collect the deoxyribonucleic acid samples. There are things like cotton swabs in them. These are to be placed like this, one on the underside of the child\’s cheek and the other on the underside of the supposed father\’s cheek. Then, these swabs have to be sealed in boxes or special envelops provided in the kit and sent back to the lab for testing. Well, that\’s all you have to do. No one needs to visit the lab.

Within a week, you will be notified of the results. You will get the results through whatever medium you choose, email, telephone or even a printed letter if you want to use it as evidence somewhere. But you must know that the results of DNA home testing will not stand their own in an open court. Courts will want to do the testing on their own steam, and samples that you sent to a lab for testing won\’t gel with them. But if all you want is your own peace of mind, then this home testing method sure works fantastically.

You must be thinking it is not always easy to collect DNA samples from a person who you think is the father, right? After all, you might want to do the whole thing secretly. Home testing helps there too. In that case, you cannot use the cheek swabs, but you can send anything the man use that contains his biological samples. It could be his worn clothes, caps and even cigarette butts. You can seal them in special enclosures and send them to the labs. The procedure of giving out the results is the same.

So, home genealogical DNA test do exist! If you are in the precarious position of determining the paternity of a child, there\’s this way out for you.

About The Author

Sean loves writing articles and educating people through them. He is interested in biological subjects too, and everything about DNA testing, including Home DNA Tests holds his interest. You can find more articles on DNA testing from him at the following link:
http://www.gene-tree.org