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Member Y-DNA Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 4/30/2021

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The fossil skull of a woman in Czechia (the Czech Republic) has provided the oldest modern human genome yet reconstructed, representing a population that formed before the ancestors of present-day Europeans and Asians split apart. Click ...

The first genetic signature for Clan MacDougall, MacDonald and MacAllister was discovered and published in 2005 by researchers at the University of Oxford, and since then, the US-based Clan Donald DNA Project has enabled thousands of present-day

Y-chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) tests trace both recent and distant generations. The number of generations traced by a Y-chromosome DNA test depends on the type of test taken, short tandem repeat (STR) or single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP).
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Here's a link to an article written by Dick Eastman that every genealogist should read.