Egyptian Dreams

[kmt_sesh]

I started a discussion about the project back when I participated. Here's the link to the third page, where I shared some of the results (a little more than halfway down the page). Rozette had participated, too, and was kind enough to share her results as well.

I was adopted as an infant, so that was my chief motivation for doing this. By adoption I have German, Dutch, and Irish roots, but I wanted to see what they might be biologically. Here's my map again, as it appeared in January 2007. I don't know if it's changed much, if at all. It's been ages but I just tried logging into my own web page again and it didn't work. LOL I have to go hunt down my password and I.D. so I can check it out again. You've renewed my interest.

I don't want to bog you down in details but the end result of my ancestors' travels was both interesting and somewhat expected. The only thing I know about my birth parents is that one of them probably had French ancestors because on the adoption papers I was called "baby Forgette." LOL Assuming that name is even real. Anyway, my ancestors did indeed end up in that region of Europe, so it makes sense.

It was interesting to see the routes my ancestors took through Africa and up through the Near East before arriving in Europe. The only disappointing thing is that I don't appear to have any Egyptian ancestry at all in my lineage. LOL Isn't that what all of us hope for on a forum like this?
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[chillie]

Wow I love this!
Times like this I wish I was working so I could just do it.
So, I would only be able to see my mother's line? My father is dead, but he was 1/2 Native American and that must be a whole different story...
I suppose this also means that our two daughters would not show my husband's heritage?
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[Shemsu Sesen]

Ok, my religion has all of you beat.

One of the sutras (I'd have to look it up and I'm too lazy to do so) states that Shakyamuni Buddha was first enlightened in an incarnation hundreds of trillions of years ago.

Top that, Methuselah.

We are uncertain of what he did for the first, well, hundreds of trillions of years, but we know things got pretty interesting 13.7 billion years ago. I suspect a burrito was involved.

As for Egypt 10,000+ years ago, I believe their time was split equally between hunting, gathering, and playing Atari 2600.
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[Montu]

yeah i've seen some of wests stuff he's a pseudo scientist who wants to make a quick buck. Personally I do reckon egyptian civilization may have kicked off a little earlier than currently accepted. I think its reasonable to suggest that the expanding Sahara forced wandering bands to congregrate around the river circa 8,000 - 7,000 B.C. resulting in a population density that could no longer be sustained by previous methods. This forced innoviation i.e. the beginnings of farming which in turn eventually led to more permanent settlements which slowly expanded into embroyinic towns and villages such as naquada at pretty much or slightly earlier than the acccepted time.