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An excellent BBC documentary called "Double Helix - The DNA Years" has been posted on You Tube at this link.

The announcement of the publication of Sense About Science’s new briefing on Sense about Genetic Ancestry Testing attracted substantial media coverage. However, some of the articles may have given the false impression that all DNA ancestry tests are...

Every school aged child in the United States learns about the "shot heard 'round the world" and the American Revolution, but how many have seen the faces of the men and women who lived it? Maureen Taylor spent ten years uncovering and...

Want to find birth announcements, marriages, obituaries, and even social gossip about your ancestors?  NewspaperArchive often is the place to look. NewspaperArchive.com focuses on small, local newspapers. Those papers typically contain news...

Family Tree is now live on FamilySearch.org and available to all users.  This opens up the contribution, collaboration, editing and sourcing tools of Family Tree to researchers - including family members - around the world.  Click here to read more in...