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George Stephanopoulos underwent DNA testing to promote "Faces of America With Henry Louis Gates, Jr," a four-part series on family histories premiering Wednesday February 10th on PBS.  Stephanoloupos discovered he is very likely a maternal cousin of...

The following tests were in progress at FTDNA as of 30 January 2010:

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

01/29/2010, 333, 162333, Mega mtDNA

01/29/2010, 333, 82680, Mega mtDNA

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

03/01/2010, 343, 162003, Deep...

We have a new Phillips Family Group!  Group 63 is composed of kit ID number DNA-R1 and 168480, a father and son.  Their ancestor Joseph Phillips appears to have immigrated to America from Poland and their yDNA haplogroup (I1) reflects this heritage...

In case you have not already checked it out, here is a link to a trailer for the upcoming US version of Who Do You Think You Are? (WDYTYA?) which premieres on Friday 5 March 2010 on the NBC network. Looks like it is going to be a great program!

With 6.8 billion people alive today, it's hard to fathom that humans were ever endangered.  But 1.2 million years ago, only 18,500 early humans were breeding on the planet.  A new method of studying DNA across the whole genome is allowing geneticists...