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It is thought that the rate of unannounced adoption or false paternity is about 1 – 3% per generation and compounds with each generation. When confirming your lineage, we recommend that you test yourself and your most distantly related male...

According to an article by Dick Eastman in his Online Genealogy Newsletter, if you go back 40 generations, you have 2,199,023,255,550 ancestors. The problem: that is far more people than have ever lived on the face of the earth. How is that...

SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) offer a definitive answer to a potential relationship. When one person is positive (derived) for a SNP and the other person is negative (ancestral) for the same SNP, they are not related in genealogical times.

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Here's a link to an informative article written by Debbie Kennett that appeared in the May 2017 edition of Who Do You Think Your Are? Magazine.

The Big Y product is a Y-chromosome direct paternal lineage test. It is designed to explore deep ancestral links on the common paternal tree. Big Y tests thousands of known branch markers as well as millions of places where there may be new branch...