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The Spanish Influenza: a family’s story.

GSQ Blog Posted on June 29, 2020 by Sue BellJune 29, 2020

By Sue Bell. How many times over the last few months have we heard the words ‘Spanish flu’? We have heard them from historians reappraising its effect on the world; health professionals who have been making comparisons with its treatment and that of COVID-19; and statisticians comparing the grim rates of death. But what was the impact on individual families and the stories that have been told within these families about this time? My husband’s grandmother, Alida Sleewijk Visser (née … Continue reading

Posted in family history, Netherlands, pandemic, Spanish flu

A Super-gene?

GSQ Blog Posted on September 25, 2016 by GSQ AdminDecember 30, 2016

Current DNA research suggests that the descendants of plague survivors share certain genetic changes, described as super-genes, that may extend life expectancy by providing protective immunity and resistance to certain cancers and auto-immune diseases.  The theory interests me because two of my Italian ancestors may possibly have died of plague,  My 8x-great-grandfather Michele and his son Giovanni died on the same day at ages 85 and 54, respectively. Their deaths could be attributable to factors other than plague – an accident of some … Continue reading

Posted in DNA, immunity, pandemic, plague, Uncategorised

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