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One of our members sent me a link to this website that is a list of every man named Phillips in the American Revolution.  Thanks for the tip, Lee!

Here is a link to a truly captivating map that shows the ancestry of every one of the 317 million people who call the melting pot of American home on a county by county basis.

Click here to listen to an interesting after-dinner talk by genetist Michael Hammer which is now available on YouTube.  The talk is entitled "Beyond Eden: The Significance of Archaic Admixture in Africa".  Part of it is quite technical but Mr. Hammer...

Here is a link to an excellent DNA presentation by Maurice Gleeson at the recent Back to our Roots show in Ireland.  It addresses all three different types of DNA testing (Y-DNA, MT-DNA, and Autosomal DNA) and Maurice has a delightful Irish accent.

Here is a link to a blog written by Dave Dowell about the sale of Ancestry.com and the efforts of FamilySearch to offer a new generation of online family trees.