Comments on: Sequencing the Genome of Sitting Bull and Other Famous People

By: Dave Caster

Dave Caster — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:26:19 +0000

A false claim on Custer, check letters to his wife Libby, he was ORDERED like in IRAQ and other actions. Please don’t degrade anyone in our military due to our leaders and the ilk they control. CUSTER FOUGHT BACK AGINST PRES. GRANT and LOST. If anyone were to actually look into Custer and his lineage and the b/s going on in Washington at the time…. Custer was screwed before he ever took his troops out. He loved the Indians and was forlorn for having to go out, but Washington DC insisted!!! Do you know how many of Custers family died at Little Big Horn? Many of Custer’s cousins were already married or would be married soon after to indian women. It isn’t like history portray’s Custer, even the Indian folklore will tell you so!!! I would check in to the sergeant, commander or whatever the flip he was, the one that sat up on the hill and watched Custer’s Troop get slaughtered, by Sitting Bull. Washington DC ordered it, in order to shut Custer up for being an Indian lover!!!! Look up Captain Custer, also lost his life at Little Big Horn.

Dave Caster
Family

By: mariea suarez

mariea suarez — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 19:16:33 +0000

Hello,
i beg the differ because I am a living descendent of my grandfather sitting bull I am his 8th great great granddaughter princess Mapia and personally taking someones hair and having analyzed for its DNA is a violation of one of our amendments who gives a person the right to violate someone’s personal property even if it is a piece of hair and the fact that they did do it with out asking anyone of us violates the dead as well.

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 06:53:12 +0000

My top 5 would be:

1. Jesus of Nazareth
2. William the Conqueror
3. The Cheddar Gorge Man
4. Tutenkahmen
5. Mine (I’ll get saving now…)

By: Bree

Bree — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:00:35 +0000

(1) The Iceman mummy from Switzerland
(2) Charlie Chaplin
(3) Buster Keaton
(4) Harold Lloyd
(5) Johann Sebastian Bach
(6) Ludwig van Beethoven
(7) George Frideric Handel, etc.
(8) Vincent Willem van Gogh
(9) Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
(10) Claude Monet
(11) Édouard Manet
(12) Edgar Degas
(13) Beatrice Wood

If you want St. Thomas his bones are in Chennai, India. Or at least that is what the Catholics claim at Saint Thomas Mount. The church at the top of the huge hill (Saint Thomas Mount) has his bones. It is the same place where several Popes have preached. They claim those are his bones from when he landed there to convert them from Hinduism back in biblical times. The people promptly killed him and preserved his bones for some reason. That is their story and they stick to it. The site is much revered by the Catholics. The relics are housed under glass and watched over by a priest. I have no idea if they are real or not, but this is the legend for the last 2,000+ years.

I would be interested to see the relics tested to see if they are human and if they are 2,000+ years old. I would also like to know if the relics are from a Jewish male. That would be interesting. Does the legend hold up to DNA testing?

Jews were in India as traders and merchants. How do you prove the relics belong to a follower of Jesus and are not some random trader or merchant? That is the difficult part. A Jew could have come to India to trade and died of malaria, cholera, viruses, cobra bite, scorpion sting and a lot of other diseases we have treatment for today, but there was no treatment then. Proving the claim that the bones belong to St. Thomas will be especially tough.

By: E1b1b1-M35

E1b1b1-M35 — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:45:57 +0000

I’d like to see DNA for the following:

1. Leonardo Da Vinci
2. St Thomas (Didymous Thomas)
3. St James, Simon, Judas (brothers of Jesus the Nazarene)
4. St John, James Boanerges (Sons of Thunder)
5. Galileo
6. Meister Eckhart
7. Chief Tecumseh
8. Black Elk
9. Napoleon
10. Pope Paul V – Camillo Borghese
11. Carl Sagan

and many others …..

By: Dave Stafford

Dave Stafford — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 05:39:13 +0000

“an easier path might be to get current DNA samples from several male line descendants”

Well, one group says ” this is the line” and another two say “no”. We know what the Y-DNA sample should read.(E1b1b1a http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/stafford/results Stafford lineage 02 14 samples)

What I am learning about Y-DNA is which same name lines to include in the search and which to exclude.

By: EB

EB — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:20:53 +0000

“Is there a way to get OLD Y-DNA to amplify and then sequence? I want to find a Y-DNA sample from 1550. ”

If you’re just interested in determining that a particular male line was actually uninterrupted, then an easier path might be to get current DNA samples from several male line descendants who diverged from that lineage at different times over the past 450 years – doing tests on all those samples with standard Y-chromosome markers could then verify the lineage (or disprove individual portions of the tree).

By: Dave Stafford

Dave Stafford — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 04:25:44 +0000

This is interesting information. Thanks.
In the long run, when it comes to future help, it is better to ask for permission than forgiveness.
Is there a way to get OLD Y-DNA to amplify and then sequence? I want to find a Y-DNA sample from 1550. I do know where to look. mtdna will not do.

Dave

By: mary

mary — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:37:24 +0000

I am a direct descendant of Sitting Bull on my father’s side.

By: Blaine Bettinger

Blaine Bettinger — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:04:12 +0000

Howard – that really is terrible. From what I’ve read over the past few days, Sitting Bull’s remains have a long history of being disturbed. Hopefully they are under better protection now.