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Yesterday Family Tree DNA sent the following announcement to project administrators:

It is with great satisfaction that we announce a permanent price change and other improvements that will positively impact your projects.

Prices:
Due to the recent...

Research from ScotlandsDNA, a new ancestry testing company, suggests that 10% of Scottish men are directly descended from the Picts, a tribe of fierce, enigmatic people who battled with Rome's legions before seeming to disappear from history.  Click...

One of our members, Doyle Phillips, has volunteered to maintain a page called Phillips Surname in America Catalog to 1775 on this website.  It is located under Phillips Research which is under The Community in the blue bar across the top of this page....

Phillips Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 03/22/2013:

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

01/31/2013, 494, 93184, Various SNPs

03/25/2013, 499, 262102, Y-DNA 67

03/25/2013, 499, 268404, MP7

04/05/2013, 502, 270935, Y-DNA 37 + MT-DNAPlus

A recent doctoral dissertation by Russian geneticist Oleg Balanovsky contains a number of fascinating maps pertaining to the distribution of both Y-DNA and mitochondrial DNA across Eurasia.  Click here to see the maps and read more in GeoCurrents.