It then used this information to construct a family tree that placed them into clusters.
But first, for many African Americans the idea of tracing a family tree has been little more than a dream.
Last year, my colleague Brian Solomon put together a family tree in an effort to break down their fortune.
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That's not a family tree we'd like to be tasked with creating.
Network Magic provides users with an easily interpreted topology map that creates a diagram like a family tree of devices on the network.
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Ron Arons set out to piece together his family's past after discovering a box of documents and a family tree following his parents' deaths.
But by looking at DNA from almost 170 samples of the bacterium, and using that to create a family tree, researchers found that it can indeed spread from person to person.
That means that individual birds can be assigned to breeds, and individual breeds to a family tree that may, in time, stretch back to the domestic chicken's wild ancestor, the Burmese jungle fowl.
Yet, data science belongs to a family tree of business practices that for over a century have been governed by technocrats who view organizations as machines, desiring to automate everything and eliminate people wherever possible.
The "smart card, " packing an electronic chip, can store everything found in a wallet or purse, a hospital record, a family tree, a university transcript - indeed, much of the detail that points to who a person is.
When watching Game of Thrones you'll get a map showing you where the current scene takes place, along with a browsable family tree.
Mr East, a retired RAF Squadron Leader and chairman of the East Family History Society who lives in Hertfordshire, said he used a variety of internet tools, including websites and the 1901 and 1911 censuses, to create a Wolstencroft family tree and trace relatives.
He came from a religious family (the family tree includes a Roman Catholic priest who helped Charles II escape after the battle of Worcester in 1651).
We lived in the second-floor flat of a small two-and-a-half-family house on a tree-lined street of frame wooden houses with redbrick stoops, each stoop topped with a gable roof and fronted by a tiny yard boxed in with a low-cut hedge.
So, to cut to the logical chase, what you have is a many-to-many mapping with a hierarchical (family tree) structure.
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To find out which linguistic features travel together, and might thus be parts of Chomskyan modules, means drawing up a reliable linguistic family tree.
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Snobs on its face would seem to be a facile story about a striving, dopey girl who marries for status in a somewhat backwards British society where status of the family tree kind still matters a great deal.
On the point of twins, a look at the family tree might help.
The result: These stars have to work overtime to prove they're famous because of talent, rather than a star-studded family tree.
Her death from a seizure earlier this year felt as if someone ripped a branch from our family tree, and the loss still hurts.
That led to color-coded paths, a Magic Forest in the main lobby and a wishing tree where family members can write their hopes for hospitalized children.
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Several Girl Scout Troops (they didn't know him at all) near us have raised money for his family and planted a tree in Erwin's honor....he so loved trees.
Fortuny's family tree is reproduced on a wall at the entrance of the exhibit, and it is the fruit of this tree that so elegantly fills two floors at the institute.
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When they got a match to a surname, the researchers ran numerous Internet searches to collect data on each individual's family tree, including obituaries, which often list the names of a deceased's family members.
Those famous wines belong to a different branch of the port family tree.
The family have already planted a tree and daffodils there in his memory.
The family have already planted a tree and daffodils in memory of Jamie there, getting the toddler's friends involved.
After using the Ancestry app on my iPad and adding records to my family tree, I easily synced that data with my desktop software by clicking a top-right button when I next opened the Family Tree Maker.
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