Non the less, the story was good. Thanks for the entertainment.
BJ Marlow


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Howard" <dshoward@...>
To: <Ashkenazi-Q@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 9:34 AM
Subject: [Ashkenazi-Q] Father's Day Yarn Errata - Potato, Tomato, Andrea -
More?n


> While I really attempted to make the story as factual as possible I have
> been notified of several errors.
>
> Alessandro notes that I used Andrea as a woman's name when in Italian it
> is a man's name. His father's name is Andrea. He also says that his
> surname, Biondo, may be derived from Yom Tov, which when spoken in Italian
> sounds like Biondo.
>
> My wife liked my fried potato link and then pointed out that the potato
> came from the new world and would not have been known for another 500 or
> 600 years after the story took place.
>
> She also pointed out that chocolate is also from the new world so that
> Chanukah in the year 900 did not include potato laktkes there was or
> chocolate gilt to use with the dreidel game. (That must have been when
> halvah tasted good.)
>
> Alas, the tomato also is from the new world as noted by Judy Graff-Fisher.
>
> Also consider this, Marco Polo didn't go to China and come back with
> noodles until about 1270s. So, at the time of my story there was neither
> pasta nor marinara sauce.
>
> Let me know if you can find any more and I will then work on a rewrite.
>
> I continue to look into the Sindhi, Radanites and the Ayrans. I believe
> they are the key to the source of our M378. There may be some more SNPs
> out there as well that apply to us.
>
> We also need more yDNA samples in the database from western Asia.
>
> Dave
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