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News alert!  We have set up a satellite or parallel Phillips DNA Project at Ancestry.com to accommodate the growing number of people who have been DNA tested by that company.  If you are one of these people, please join our satellite project at...

The November 2009 Phillips DNA Project newsletter has been posted on the News page of this website.  You can elect to read it in plain text or PDF format.  This month the newsletter contains information on various DNA testing companies and free searchable...

The following tests were in progress at FTDNA as of 31 October, 2009: 

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

11/04/2009, 326, 26802, Refine 12 markers to 37

11/06/2009, 324, 156888, Deep Clade-R

11/09/2009, 327, 76446, Factoids

11/23/2009, 329,...

Here is alink to a video posted on YouTube of Dr. Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute discussing Neanderthal genetics with Dave Micklos of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.  Dr. Paabo discusses the question of whether or not humans and...

We have a new group, Phillips Family Group 60.  Both members of this group live in England and did not know they were related before DNA analysis proved it.  DNA testing for genealogical purposes is still not as popular in Europe as it is in America,...