Archived Blog Posts

The August issue of the Phillips DNA Project's newsletter has been posted on this website under the News tab.  Just click on News in the blue bar above and you can choose to read the newsletter in plain text, PDF or XPS format.

This month the...

The human family tree just got another mysterious branch, an African "sister species" to the heavy-browed Neanderthals that once roamed Europe.  While no fossilized bones have been found from these enigmatic people, they did leave a calling card in...

Phillips Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 07/29/2012:

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

08/13/2012, 467, 240422, DNA37+MT-DNAPlus

08/15/2012, 470, 74046, Refine 37 to 67 markers

08/17/2012, 469, 242917, Y-DNA 25

08/29/2012, 472, 117153,...

KTLA, a Los Angeles TV station, recently broadcast a short news segment on someone who discovered a couple of 2nd cousins through Ancestry's new autosomal DNA test. Here is a link to the news story.

National Geographic is entering the next phase of their Genographic Project in partnership with Family Tree DNA and the genetic genealogy community. Continuing to move toward their goal of mapping the pattern of human genetics, they are introducing the new...