By the end of eighteenth-century St Martin’s Youths Birmingham was one leading bell ringing societies outside London, as it remains to this day. The handwritten peal books in Archive Guild, its modern successor, provide a record peals rung by society from 1755, but little known ringers themselves beyond few anecdotes contained oral history for later period. Genealogical records and techniques a...

This article describes the life and work of great Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur, a descendant Amir Temur, genealogical history Babur meaning name “Babur”.

Haeckel created much of our current vocabulary in evolutionary biology, such as the term phylogeny, which is currently used to designate trees. Assuming that Haeckel gave the same meaning to this term, one often reproduces Haeckel's trees as the first illustrations of phylogenetic trees. A detailed analysis of Haeckel's own evolutionary vocabulary and theory revealed that Haeckel's trees were g...

We consider a multi-type Moran model (in continuous time) with selection and typedependent mutation. This paper is concerned with the evolution of genealogical information forward in time. For this purpose we define and analytically characterize a pathvalued Markov process that contains in its state at time t the extended ancestral lines (adding genealogical distances) of the population alive a...

Conditional Sampling Distributions for Coalescent Models Incorporating Recombination by Joshua Samuel Paul Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and the Designated Emphasis in Computational and Genomic Biology University of California, Berkeley Professor Yun S. Song, Chair With the volume of available genomic data increasing at an exponential rate, we have unprecedented ability to address ke...

Motivated by applications in systems biology, a probabilistic framework based on Markov processes is proposed to represent intracellular processes. The formal relationships between different stochastic models referred to in the systems biology literature are reviewed. As part of this review, a novel derivation of the differential Chapman-Kolmogorov equation for a general multidimensional Markov...

Introduction In this 1986 book, Sheila Embleton surveys the development and use of statistical techniques in historical linguistics. She argues that any successful lexicostatistic model must incorporate word borrowing rates. A computational model for family tree reconstruction using borrowing is introduced, building on ideas of Sankoff (Sankoff 1972). Embleton outlines future uses of lexicostat...

Whether a family history user is beginning to build their family tree or working in a well-developed tree already containing thousands of relatives, retaining context of how all of their relatives are related to them is often difficult. To aid users with this problem, many genealogy products include relationship calculators to show the relationships between two persons. However, these relations...