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The Scotsman website and newspaper has published a fascinating article by Alistair Moffat and Dr. Jim Wilson about the DNA of Scotland.  As mentioned in the article, multiculturalism may not be fashionable in certain quarters nowadays, but it has a...

Descendants of Abraham Lincoln's assassin are pushing for a DNA test to finally resolve whether John Wilkes Booth escaped his well-recorded shooting death and lived for another forty years in Texas and Oklahoma.  Clickhere to read the entire story...

The March 2011 issue of the Phillips DNA project's newsletter has been posted.  Click on the News button in the blue bar on our home page and you can elect to read the newsletter in plain text, PDF or XPF.

This month the newsletter contains...

The new American version of the British genealogical series, "Who Do You Think You Are?", airing on NBC Friday nights at 7 PM, finished second in the time period overall and first in the non-sports category.  It also ranked first with women viewers. ...

One of our project members is conducting an interesting, new experiment (at least, new for our project).  She found an old Polaroid picture that had two drops of her deceased father's blood on a corner of it.  We asked the lab at FTDNA if they could...