Boy or Girl? If it is really important to you to either have boy or girl children, you need to take a look at your husband's family tree. Since women have two X chromosomes and men have XY chromosomes, it is the man who determines the sex of a child. If you husband's family has a lot of girls and not many boys, he will be more likely to father girls. Exponentially so if that same trait flows from generation to generation. Sometimes there are oddballs that are the opposite of the family tree, but there are many more that follow this statistically link.

Genetics and Genealogy Part I Researchers are using a continent in which there is little to no written record regarding births, marriages, deaths, etc. to test the genetic diversity of a land. As it turns out, Africa has one of the highest rate of genetic diversity found. This means that when African-Americans are trying to trace their family trees there are limits and roadblocks that they'll face. Besides the obvious road block of trying to trace a line that might have been taking from their homes for the purpose of slave trading to immigrants who chose to come to the United States, there are also few records with which to crosscheck their information. The genetic study found 121 distinct family lines in Africa. That means that you might be able to find the region with a genetic test, but it would take several more genetic markers and time to trace the exact tribe or ethnic group from which your family derived.

On April 30, 1789, George Washington came across the Hudson River into New York to be inaugurated as the very first President of the United States of America. He served two four year terms setting an unspoken precedence for Presidential term limits, unchallenged until Franklin D. Roosevelt won his third and fourth elections.