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Descendants of some 20 families who fought at the Battle of Bosworth, that ended the reign of Richard III, are to meet for the first time.

Researchers who identified the king using DNA from his distant family used the same techniques to find...

A DNA study of Britons has shown that genetically there is not a unique Celtic group of people in the UK.

According to the data, those of Celtic ancestry in Scotland and Cornwall are more similar to the English than they are to other Celtic groups.

Recently Family Tree DNA launched a new "skin" that they are calling MyGroups.  

Here are some of the features you will see with this upgrade:

• New privacy choices given to both group members and to group administrators. These choices allow a group to be

Construction workers building the foundations of a new bridge over the Danube River in the Hungarian capitol, Budapest, have unearthed a spectacular 5th century sepulchre. The analysis of the monument revealed that it was the burial chamber of a great...

It appears that AncestryDNA has stopped selling their Y-STR and mtDNA tests. The website now shows that the tests are out of stock and visitors are directed to the landing page for the new AncestryDNA autosomal DNA test.  Click here to read more in a...