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The July 2009 issue of the Phillips DNA Project newsletter has been posted on the main News page of this website.  To access the newsletter, click on the News tab at the top of this page.  You can read the newsletter in PDF format or plain text...

Our largest group, Phillips Family Group 2, has two new matches: kit number 152000 and kit number 154111 .  Both of these participants appear to possibly descend from Reuben Clementine Phillips who died in Anson County, NC, about 1781.  They match...

The following tests were in progress at FTDNA as of 27 June 2009:

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

06/29/2009, 308, 50779, Deep Clade R

07/06/2009, 309, 52586, Refine Y-DNA (38 to 67 markers)

07/06/2009, 309, 147495, Refine Y-DNA (38 to 67...

Phillips Family Group 11 has a 35/37 marker match with a man who has the last name Hendricks.  This participant and several other researchers believed for years that his Hendricks line was the result of a liaison between a man named Tilton Phillips...

Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) has decided to extend the summer sale on their paternal 37 marker yDNA test plus mtDNA (maternal) test to June 30, 2009.  The test costs $119 which must be paid by July 7, 2009.  This is a reduction of more than 50% over the...