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Visitors to Britain's stately homes may be able to find out whether their ancestors were the lords of the manor or merely the scullery maids under a new research program backed by Britain's National Trust.  The organization is funding investigations...

We had new yDNA test results return from the FTDNA lab for four participants over the past month.  These participants were added to various groups as follows:

170512 was added to Group 12

165570 was added to Group 58

157461 was added to the I...

Fifty-one decapitated skeletons found in a burial pit in Dorset, England, last June appear to be Scandinavian Vikings, scientists say.  Archaeologists from Oxford believe the men were probably executed by local Anglo-Saxons in front of an audience...

The following tests were underway at FTDNA as of 13 March 2010:

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

03/01/2010, 343, 84729, R-L21 SNP

03/12/2010, 341, 168955, Y-DNA 37

03/19/2010, 333, 82680, Mega mtDNA

03/26/2010, 345, 171530, Y-DNA 37 plus...

The new TV show "Who Do You Think You Are?" had 6.9 million viewers last Friday night, coming in a close second to "Dateline NBC".  Not bad for a program about genealogy!  If you did not catch the show, you can watch the first episode on the web at...