Speaker for the Dead: A Genealogy Blog
History of Rainbow Flag Health Services – Part 3
History of Rainbow Flag Health Services
Part III: Legacy
By the late 2000s, much of what Rainbow Flag Health Services had been built to protect was no longer theoretical or precarious. The legal landscape had shifted, slowly and unevenly, but in ways that reflected battles Leland Traiman had been fighting since the […]
History of Rainbow Flag Health Services – Part 2
History of Rainbow Flag Health Services
Part II: Fighting Discrimination
From the beginning, Rainbow Flag Health Services existed in a regulatory gray zone. Federal and state authorities had never anticipated a sperm bank that openly accepted gay men as donors, nor one built around known donors rather than anonymity. What followed was […]
Ancestry® Pro Tools Furthers Research for a Mystery Father of Ernest Piatt – Part 2 or 2
Continued from Part 1
[This article was originally published in The California Nugget, Spring 2025 edition.]
157 New Cousins
The next step in the analysis was to review each of the new cousins. This […]
Ancestry® Pro Tools Furthers Research for a Mystery Father of Ernest Piatt – Part 1 or 2
Low Centimorgan Matches (cM < 20) find a purpose in research.
An update to The California Nugget Spring 2024 article.
by Stewart Blandón Traiman, MD
[This article was originally published in The California Nugget, Spring 2025 […]
Sex versus Gender
Most people use the terms “sex” and “gender” interchangeably. They are the same thing, aren’t they? This confusion exists because we’re taught from a young age that our anatomy dictates our expression of masculinity or femininity. Society tightly weaves sex and gender together, teaching us that one influences the other. […]
Why I don’t sync RootsMagic with Ancestry, anymore.
Keeping my RootsMagic (RM) data and Ancestry data consistent is made simple by the TreeShare functionality in RM. Any work done on Ancestry, such as attaching documents to a profile or adding facts to a person, can be synced to RM without needing to manually reenter the […]
Finding the Mystery Father of Ernest Piatt with Autosomal DNA Matches – Part 3 or 3
by Stewart Blandón Traiman, MD
[This article was originally published in The California Nugget, Spring 2024 edition.]
The DNA Connections
We have successfully verified the relationships of eleven DNA matches within the mystery line and have identified common ancestors. These relationships fall within the statistically expected range of shared centimorgans (cM) and have a […]
Finding the Mystery Father of Ernest Piatt with Autosomal DNA Matches – Part 2 of 3
by Stewart Blandón Traiman, MD
[This article was originally published in The California Nugget, Spring 2024 edition.]
Searching for a Common Ancestor
Our next focus was to research the eleven matches with connections to the mystery line to determine how they related to each other. [See Genogram]
Cousin 08 – This cousin was the known […]
