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Member Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 05/15/2015

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

01/15/2015, 597, 361064, Backbone

04/22/2015, 611, 376378, Backbone

05/27/2015, 610, 348812, Y-DNA 67

05/27/2015, 607, 9955, Y-DNA 111

05/27/2015, 605,...

"We have to keep in mind what these admixture [ethnicity] tests do: they take the DNA of living people - us, the test takers - and they compare it to the DNA of other living people - people whose parents and grandparents and, sometimes, even great...

Armed with old bones and new DNA sequencing technology, scientists are getting a much better understanding of the prehistory of the human species.  Click here to read the whole story in the Wall Street Journal.

By now you have realized our website has a new look.  The color scheme hasn't changed much, but pages are a little more spaced out, the font is slightly larger, and hopefully you will find it easier to read.  Our site turned 5 years old back in the...

With more than 40 million immigrants, the United States is the top destination in the world for those moving from one country to another.  You can read the rest of the story and look at some interesting maps in an article by Jens Manuel Krogstad and...