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Ancestry has been trying for weeks to fix a data loss in its RootsWeb/USGenWeb/WorldConnect web pages. The company has been able to repair many of the lost pages but not all.  Click here to read more in Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter.

Here is a link to a lecture delivered by Maurice Gleeson at the recent WDYTYA - Live 2015 conference held last week in Birmingham, England.

Although this Phillips DNA Project is a Y-DNA project, many of the members of this project have also gotten their autosomal DNA tested.  Here is a link to a blog that explains why it is so difficult to use autosomal DNA to prove a common ancestor.

Ten years ago, a group of international scientists and indigenous community members gathered at National Geographic Society's headquarters in Washington, D.C. to kick off the Genographic Project.  The plan: to use DNA analyses to answer fundamental...

"I don’t know you, but I can almost guarantee that you don’t ask your grandparents (or older parents) enough questions about their lives and the lives of their parents. We’re all incredibly self-absorbed, and in being so, we forget to care about...