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Sometimes people get different haplogroup predictions from different companies. The reason for conflicting results depends on the test performed by the various companies.

One company may be providing a haplogroup prediction based on STR (short...

Member Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 03/03/2018

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

03/12/2018, 821, IN16219, Y-DNA 111

03/19/2018, 831, 820370, Y-DNA 12

03/26/2018, 833, 827957, Y-DNA 12

03/26/2018, 833, 825732, Y-DNA 37

02/26/2018, 833,...

Here is a link to a fully searchable database containing over 64,000 names of people known to have migrated to England between 1330 and 1550.

For the first time, scientists have been able to extract DNA from ancient East Asian bones and compare it to the DNA of the people there today. It turns out that modern East Asians, unlike Europeans, are very genetically similar to their ancestors — and...

More than a century after the discovery of an ancient crypt loaded with turquoise and other riches in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon, scientists have analyzed DNA from the remains of 14 people buried there. What they found is surprising evidence of a...