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Another document review please

Like a previous poster, I'm really nervous about getting this right, any advice is appreciated...

Applying for myself (G3), and my two kids (G4s). The Canadian by descent lineage is mostly maternal, so marriage certs included to show last name changes unless the birth certificate includes the mother's maiden name.

here's what I don't have:

G0 1910 certified birth record requested from the Archives of Ontario one month ago, no response yet (expected).

here's what I have:

G0 (great grandmother) Copy of 1910 Ontario birth record from Ancestry

Print out from the Archives of Ontario saying that they use Ancestry to store copies of their documents

G0 on the 1911 Census of Canada from FamilySearch (better quality/clearer than Ancestry copy)

G0 on the 1921 Census of Canada from FamilySearch (better quality/clearer than Ancestry copy)

Print out from the LAC saying the IPCC doesn't need certified copies and to just use FamilySearch/Ancestry

G0 Copy of 1926 certified US marriage record showing birth place as Ontario and last name change to match G1

G0 and G1 on the 1940 US census showing her birth place as Canada with new last name from Ancestry

G1 (grandmother) Copy of 1932 certified US birth certificate also lists G0 mother's birthplace as Canada

G2 (mother) Copy of certified US birth certificate showing G1 maiden name

G3 (me) Copy of certified US birth certificate showing G2 maiden name

G4 (kids) Copy of birth certificates showing my G3 name.

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u/funkatron3000 — 23 hours ago
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Services that provide Illumina methylation array IDAT files?

TruDiagnostic no longer provides raw IDAT files if you want to dig deeper into the data. What are the alternatives if you're looking to get the raw data yourself?

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u/funkatron3000 — 2 months ago
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Personal aging llm-wiki

So, I figure this is probably a niche interest, and sorry if it's too off topic. I've been working on a wiki for the past month or so to back agents like Claude Code or Codex as a personal human-aging-knowledgeable assistant. GitHub, browsable wiki. It's based on Karpathy's llm-wiki concept.

It has ingested over 3000 primary source research papers (built on my own personal archive of 3m open access papers) and mapped them to >850 wiki pages describing many of the proteins, pathways, biomarkers, interventions, etc, involved in human aging as well as attributing causality. So you can spin up an agent on the wiki and ask it all sorts of questions and get evidence backed answers instead of... the comments you usually get online or the normal hallucinations you get just from LLM training data. It's also interesting to probe where the real gaps are in our knowledge and where/what experiments can be designed to move the needle forward.

If you want, it's also setup to walk you through gathering all your own personal medical info, saving it in a personal repo, and drafting guidance to help get you in line with what's thought to be optimal based on the evidence found so far. Of course, not medical advice and that info gets sent to whichever service hosts the agent you're using, but I use it like that every day to stick to my own plan and track my progress and I think it's pretty great.

If you're considering a project like this, it would be nice to build off this rather than waste the GPU cycles rebuilding it all from scratch, even if it's just a drop in the bucket.

Probably odd given the topic, but this post was written without AI.

u/funkatron3000 — 3 months ago