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Americans are digging up surprises about their immigrant ancestors using DNA testing and online genealogy research.  Click here to read more in The Wall Street Journal.

Russian investigators said Monday that they will exhume the remains of Russian Tsar Alexander III to confirm the identity of two of his grandchildren, who were executed alongside their father, Tsar Nicholas II, by the Bolsheviks in 1918.  Click here to...

DNA evidence could be used for the first time to resolve a feud over a hereditary title after Queen Elizabeth intervenes.  Click here to read the entire story in the Telegraph.

Member Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 10/10/2015

Due Date, Batch #, Kit #, Type of Test

11/11/2015, 635, 389248, Y-DNA 37

11/25/2015, 639, 438740, Y-DNA 37

12/02/2015, 641, 433559, Y-DNA 37

12/09/2015, 642, 402256, Y-DNA 67

12/23/2015, 643,...

Using forensic, isotopic and DNA techniques, scientists found the burials belonged to more than one generation of a single family, with two of the bodies thought to be warriors due to their multiple healed wounds.  Click here to read the entire...