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by Carolyn Abraham


  British Library online: www.bl.uk/

  Cacciottolo, Mario, “My ancestor traded in human misery,” BBC News, June 23, 2006.

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/​hi/uk_news/​5105328.stm

  Chandler, Arthur, “On the Symbolism of Juggling: The Moral and Aesthetic Implications of the Mastery of Falling Objects.” The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 25, Winter 1991. http://www.juggling​.org/​papers/​symbolism/

  Crooks wills, personal correspondence of Duncan Campbell, Cousins Cove Slave Register 1817, Directories, civil and military, lists of landowners, slave owners, periodicals, Quit Rent book records, essays and excerpts related to colonial Jamaica. www.jamaicanfamilysearch​.com

  Database to freely upload and compare Y-DNA test results with those who have tested through other companies or projects, operated by Family Tree DNA. http://www.ysearch.org/

  East Asian haplogroups and forum discussions:

  http://www.familytreedna​.com/​public/O3

  http://www.asiasfinest.com

  http://s6.zetaboards.com/man​/topic​/8571522/1/

  “Falmouth Wharves,” presented by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust.

  http://www.jnht.com/​site_falmouth_​wharves.php

  Farrer, William and J. Brownbill, “Townships: Abram,” A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, Victoria County History, 1911.

  http://www.british-history.ac.uk/​report.aspx?​compid​=41389

  General Y-DNA haplogroup distributions, origins and general information on using DNA to investigate ancestry.

  www.isogg.org

  Free online resource operated by the International Society of Genetic Genealogy, a non-commercial, non-profit group designed to promote the use of genetic testing in genealogy.

  http://www.eupedia.com/​genetics/

  An open resource covering subjects related to European Prehistory, Anthropology and Genetics, including articles, studies, and discussion forums.

  https://genographic.​nationalgeographic.​com/

  Home page of the Genographic Project, the multi-year, international effort to map the history of human migration through DNA, operated jointly by the National Geographic, IBM and headed by Dr. Spencer Wells.

  Genealogical sites containing various vital and property records, discussion boards, census materials and related links:

  http://www.ancestry.com

  http://www.britishsurnames.​co.uk/surnames

  http://www.cyndislist.com/

  https://familysearch.org

  http://genforum.​genealogy.com/

  http://rootsweb.​ancestry.com/

  http://www.theshipslist​.com/.

  Harper, Robert Francis, ed., “Hammurabi, The Code of Hammurabi, 2250 BC.” Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1904. Translation posted at The Online Library of Liberty. http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_​staticxt&staticfile=​show.​php%3Ftitle=​1276&chapter=​79599&layout=​html&Itemid=27

  Ibagere, Eniwoke, “Nigeria boasts world’s twin capital,” BBC News World Edition, Sept. 13, 2002.

  http://news.bbc.co.uk​/2/hi/​africa/​2253845.stm

  Lei, Dr. Hsien-Hsien, “Genetic Genealogy and the Chinese.” DNA and Genealogy, blog post of Nov. 7, 2007.

  www.eyeondna.com

  Lewbel, Arthur, “Research in Juggling History,” November 1995, revised March 2002, condensed version appearing in Jugglers World Magazine.

  https://www2.bc.edu/~lewbel/​jugweb/history-​1.html

  “My diary or Route Book of P.T. Barnum’s Greatest Show on Earth and The Great London Circus for the Season of 1884,” photocopy transcribed and posted at

  www.circushistory.​org/History/​PTB1884.htm

  Phillipo, James Mursell. Jamaica: Its Past and Present State. London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1843, excerpts.

  www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com

  Qifeng, Fu. Chinese Acrobatics Through the Ages. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1985, excerpt.

  http://www.juggling.org/​papers/symbolism/#fn2

  Qiu, Jane, “Inheriting Confucius,” Seed Magazine, Aug. 13, 2008, accessed at http://seedmagazine.com/content/​article/inheriting_​confucius/

  Spence, Jonathan. God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996, references. http://www.iun.edu/~hisdcl​/g385_2001/​Taiping​%20religion.htm

  Stevens, Nettie, “Studies in Spermatogenesis with Especial Reference to the Accessory Chromosome.” Originally carried in a report of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, May 23, 1905, excerpts and context. http://incubator.rockefeller.edu/?p=432

  Stewart, John. An Account of Jamaica and its Inhabitants. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808, excerpts. www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com

  Stewart, J. A View of the Past and Present State of the Island of Jamaica; with Remarks on the Moral and Physical Condition of The Slaves and on The Abolition of Slavery in The Colonies. London: Oliver and Boyd, Tweeddale-House, and G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823, excerpts. www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com

  “Sugar Cane — history,” Plant Culture, Exploring plants and people, a collaborative information resource between Britain and South Asia, organized by Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, including, among others, Culture Online, an initiative of The National Archives and the British Library. http://www.kew.org/plant-​cultures/​plants/​sugar_cane_​history.html

  The Free Enclyclopedia of the International Circus: http://www.circopedia.org/​index.php/​Category​:History

  “The History of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Tarbes in India,” for information related to Christian missions in the Nilgiri mountains, and Father Jacques Dennis Peyramale of the Paris Foreign Missions Society in nineteenth-century Coonoor. http://sjtbangalore.​org/SJT_​Indian_History​.pdf

  aTortello, Dr. Rebecca, “The History of Falmouth: Boom Town of The 19th Century,” posted online June 23, 2003 as part The Jamaican Gleaner series, “Pieces of the Past.” http://jamaica-gleaner.com​/pages/​history/​story0051.htm

  CAROLYN ABRAHAM is the author of Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein’s Brain, which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction. The longtime senior medical-science writer for The Globe and Mail, she is a four-time winner of the Canadian Science Writers’ Association’s annual award for her medical reporting and winner of two National Newspaper Awards. She lives with her family in Toronto.

 

 

 


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