Valentine’s Day is almost here, you’re really late for buying a present and you don’t want to stick to candy and flowers this year. Okay. We can help you. Simply click here, order and print your personal Family Tree Poster Gift Voucher directly on your PC at home. After your order, you can download your personal voucher as PDF file and print it on your home printer. The voucher value can be set individually, of course.
…because babies born by the end of summer or early autumn are bigger and have stronger bones than babies born in winter and spring. This is the conclusion of Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), a study by the University of Bristol that was released last week.
The reason is vitamin D, since it is responsible for the formation of bone. Sunlight, according to the researchers, has a positive influence on the production of vitamin D during pregnancy. The scientists in Bristol investigated 7,000 cases of births from 1991 to 1992.
Result: the babies of women who have longer periods of sun exposure were in average of 0.5 cm bigger and had about 12,75 cm² more bone mass!
200 years ago the British naturalist Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury England. His work “The Origin of Species” and the contributions to the theory of evolution made him one of the greatest scientists of all time.
When Darwin started his nearly five-year research trip on the survey ship HMS Beagle in 1831, he could not foresee how revolutionary his discovery 20 years later would be. Darwin collected thousands of different plants and animals on his trip to South America and developed his theory of the origin of species.
Nowadays, we can not quite understand the impact on the Christian world caused by his theory. It meant nothing less than the negation of the doctrine of creation and the fact that man derives from ape. Despite his “scandalous” discoveries, he was buried in London’s most famous church, Westminster Abbey. An unmistakable sign that even during his lifetime, the theory of evolution could no longer be denied.
Charles Darwin died in Downe on 19th of April, 1882. His complete works can be accessed here.
A baby recently born in San Francisco has six perfectly formed and functional fingers and toes on its hands and feet. Kaman Hubbard looks so normal with his extra fingers that in the beginning, not even his parents noticed the unusual number of fingers and toes. His father’s fingers aren’t well-developed either, but with one big difference: the father’s fingers were not functional and had to be removed. Now we wish all the best for the child that could become an extraordinary pianist or a flamenco guitarist!
Here we go again: Pollday! Last week’s poll showed that in about 60% of our voter’s families the cooking traditions are passed on in the family. This week, we’d like you to think about family tree products other than the family tree poster printout that you can buy already. Are there other materials you’d like us to print your family tree on? Tell us! 
February 14 is Valentine’s Day, the day for all couples worldwide, know especially in Europe and the US.
For this day, people look for special romantic presents, usually perfumes, flowers or sweets. For all those who don’t want to give away standard presents, we suggest one of our family tree posters as a gift. 
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To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we’re giving away a Panorama-L poster for free!
All you have to do is answer the following question:
How many couples in our database married on Valentine’s day, February 14?
The winner will be announced here on Monday (02/09/2009).
In the last part of the rights management tutorial (Part 1 | Part 2), we’ll deal with the contacts issue. Who can contact me, edit my profile, see my photos and and find me on the search?
Under “Settings“> “Permissions” you can select between four different levels with the slider:
Confidential
Default
Public
The last level, Custom, will be shown as soon as you edit one of our predefined levels. Every level can be edited by clicking on “Details”. When you set the slider back on one of the other levels and press “save”, the standards are restored automatically.
Where do Barack Obama’ relatives live? Is the name “Bush” really from Texas? With our brand new surname maps for the United States these questions can be answered. On dynastree.com/maps you will find over 1.7 million maps with the geographical distribution of surnames in the United States of America.
The results are divided into the 50 states (+ Washington D.C.) and available in both the absolute and relative distribution of the last name. The absolute distribution shows how many people with a certain last name live in a state. The relative distribution tells you how many people are there in proportion to the population of each state.
The page shows you further data on the name (how many directory entries are there with the name? In what state does the name occur most frequently? …), too.
Besides the US surname maps we also have the maps for Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Poland.
As seen in countless Discovery Channel documentaries: the tectonic plates have always been moving and will keep moving as long as the Earth exists. Many, many generations ago, our prehistoric “ancestors” could move freely from one end of the land to the other, as there was only one supercontinent: Pangaea. This is seen as the explanation for the synchronic evolution of men in different parts of the world and common genes all around the globe. The video below shows the tectonic plates’ movement in the future as well as in the past. A very short and entertaining history lesson.
650 Million Years in 1 Min. and 20 Sec. – Watch more free videos
Pollday again! Last week’s poll was about genealogical societies. We were quite surprised by the fact that about 24% of our voters are members and another 36% are currently planning to become one.
This week, where you got your cooking skills from. Is it your Grandma or the latest cooking show on TV? Family traditions manifest in several ways. Some are lost in time and others are grown for generations and centuries. One of the most popular transmissions of traditions is a recipe from Grandma. dynastree wants to know: You have these recipes stored somewhere and pass them on in the family?
