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"Who do you think you are? Live", the largest family history show in the world, will be taking place this year from the 26th to the 28th of February at Olympia in London. The speakers for the DNA workshops have now been announced and full details...

The following tests were in progress at FTDNA as of 13 February, 2010:

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

02/19/2010, 333, 162333, Mega mtDNA

02/19/2010, 333, 82680, Mega mtDNA

02/27/2010, 341, 168955, Y-DNA 37

03/01/2010, 343, 84729, R-L21...

The first of a four part series called "Faces of America" premiered on PBS last night.  Here is a link to the first episode in case you missed it:http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/video/episode-1-our-american-stories/190/.

The first episode...

Scientists have pieced together an ancient human genome sequence from the hair of a 4,000 year old extinct Palaeo-Eskimo found in Greenland.  His DNA indicates that he belongs to Haplogroup Q1a, which is not surprising considering modern Inuits,...

We had new yDNA test results return from the FTDNA lab for seven participants over the past month.  These participants were added to various groups as follows:

168416 was added to Family Group 5

168655 was added to Family Group 10

166613 was added...