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Member Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 06/23/2020

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

06/24/2020    1070               233741           Y-HAP Backbone

06/29/2020    1075               655847           Big Y700

07/06/2020    1101               B43755          Y-HAP Backbone

07/06/2020    1085               182315           mtDNA Full Sequence

07/06/2020...

Now through June 21 at FTDNA, a 37 marker Y-DNA test is $109 plus postage and an 111 marker Y-DNA test is $219 plus postage. The Big Y-700 SNP test is also on sale but it is not useful for matching within a genealogical time frame and neither is...

Family legends are a fascinating part of who we are and where we came from. Many of the storytellers who passed down these tales surely believed them, and even those who didn’t must have had a strong sense of family pride. Why would your ancestors repeat...

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...