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DNA has upended neat and tidy accounts of the peopling of the American continents. Click here to read more in Scientific American.

After a bone marrow transplant, a man with leukemia found that his donor’s DNA traveled to unexpected parts of his body. A crime lab is now studying the case. Click here to read the entire story in the New York Times.

Yes, someplace in history there probably were three brothers somewhere who split up and went separate ways. But 99.9% of the “three brothers” stories you will hear are fictitious. Click here to read the entire article in Eastman's Online Genealogy...

When researchers analysed the DNA of early British farmers, they found they most closely resembled Neolithic people from Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal). These Iberian farmers were descended from people who had journeyed west across the...

Here is a link to an article in Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter about a new algorithm Ancestry.com has adopted to analyze autosomal DNA results. Please note that our project does NOT use autosomal DNA to establish our Phillips family groups....