Daily Archives: April 13, 2019

DNA FASTQ to BAM File Conversion

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Wichita Genealogist

I ran across this article http://www.it2kane.org/2018/05/variant-discovery-process-update/ on how to convert FASTQ file to BAM file for DNA. It has a lot of details in the description.

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Do Your Readers Trust You? — The Art of Blogging

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Wichita Genealogist

Those who blog for fun and those who blog in order to earn a living out of it seem to be on two ends of a spectrum. On the one side: logic, strategy and profits. On the other: empathy, passion, … Continue reading →

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Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) in Cemeteries

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Wichita Genealogist

This is a post I started working on years ago. There’s a Wichita, Kansas cemetery, Highland Cemetery – BillionGraves: https://billiongraves.com/cemetery/Highland-Cemetery/37991; Find-A-Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/92689/highland-cemetery considered to be the first one according to many records. It was abandoned by its owners in the early … Continue reading →

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My True Ancestry DNA Website

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Wichita Genealogist

I have heard different opinions on this DNA website – https://mytrueancestry.com/. I wouldn’t recommend using a password that you use anywhere else as a precaution although I generally recommend the same advice for all websites. I also recommend using a … Continue reading →

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That Time a Luftwaffe Pilot Risked His Own Life to Save an American Bomber – YouTube Video

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Wichita Genealogist

I have read about this incident a while back and it showed up on YouTube as a suggestion yesterday – That Time a Luftwaffe Pilot Risked His Own Life to Save an American Bomber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7UDdoEyFB4 (around 9:43 minutes long).

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Israel Lunar Lander Crashed on the Moon April 11, 2019 – Space Saturdays

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Wichita Genealogist

I saw the articles recently of Israel’s Lunar Landing crashing. It came so close to making it. There are several articles about the crash: https://forward.com/fast-forward/422528/moon-lander-beresheet-spaceil-spacex-israel-morris-kahn-netanyahu/ https://bgr.com/2019/04/12/moon-lander-crash-spaceil-israel-beresheet/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfpUPVFQIsM I am glad to see the crash hasn’t stopped them from trying again: … Continue reading →

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New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines – National Geographic

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Wichita Genealogist

New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/04/new-species-ancient-human-discovered-luzon-philippines-homo-luzonensis/. 1,800th

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— From The Darkness Into The Light

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Wichita Genealogist

America is home to more than 328 million people, but did you know that more than 53 percent live in just 10 states? Naturally, these 10 states are home to the country’s biggest urban centers. The most popular states are, … Continue reading →

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My Ear Infection History

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Wichita Genealogist

As a follow-up to https://upsdownsfamilyhistory.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/earitated-lifeoffaif, I decided to give my ear infection story. I briefly talked about it at https://upsdownsfamilyhistory.wordpress.com/2019/04/05/the-first-100-signs-you-need-to-know-american-sign-language-youtube-video. Starting in high school, I developed really bad ear infections. It eventually took an ear doctor putting in tubes to … Continue reading →

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