From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Jul 2 19:12:57 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k631Cvjb009386; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 19:12:57 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k631Cs34023195 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 19:12:54 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k62MZpFI007615 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 18:35:51 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k62MZpl1007614 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 18:35:51 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k62Lo3FI007460 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 17:50:03 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k630QtmM012636 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 18:26:55 -0600 X-Envelope-From: mswebber@gmail.com Sun Jul 2 18:26:55 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k630Qtjb012625 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 18:26:55 -0600 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.224]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k630Qq76019764 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 18:26:53 -0600 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 50so380910wri for ; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:26:53 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=O2YjS7fkQ0SvXl97CGicsHUoQmdjG2M3z6oMgpWGQwr7SpOxtZineMbT7F01Om6I5Fwy+ykBJQBppGYNdEyFp1DXIrBMmP9KLT4w36PqwOjojDEK5YrDqF0+76lzr4gg0+OmYwVrVAe40qlVGRlh9WIPvV8wAItbpeVZh0GUhNg= Received: by 10.54.140.13 with SMTP id n13mr15796wrd; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.175? ( [24.86.122.5]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 40sm5623185wrl.2006.07.02.17.26.53; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44A865B3.8040804@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:32:51 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed From: TD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Roots of human family tree are shallow X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lists5.rootsweb.com id k630QtmM012636 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by roots-l.rootsweb.com id k62Lo3FI007460 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Another genealogy related article...must be a slow news weekend! Whoever it was probably lived a few thousand years ago, somewhere in East Asia — Taiwan, Malaysia and Siberia all are likely locations. He — or she — did nothing more remarkable than be born, live, have children and die. Yet this was the ancestor of every person now living on Earth — the last person in history whose family tree branches out to touch all 6.5 billion people on the planet today. That means everybody on Earth descends from somebody who was around as recently as the reign of Tutankhamen, maybe even during the Golden Age of ancient Greece. There's even a chance that our last shared ancestor lived at the time of Christ. "It's a mathematical certainty that that person existed," said Steve Olson, whose 2002 book "Mapping Human History" traces the history of the species since its origins in Africa more than 100,000 years ago. Read more here: http://tinyurl.com/gz9s2