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Starting today, April 20th, Family Tree DNA is reducing prices on their best-selling DNA tests for one week only to celebrate National DNA Day.  Here is a link to a page at FTDNA where you can order a test kit through our Phillips DNA Project....

Here is a link to a website that lists the percentages of different haplogroups found in various European countries.  The figures are only indicative and several sources were used and averages recalculated by merging the data available.

Living DNA and the Computer Genealogy Association (CompGen), the largest genealogical association in Germany, work together with leading academics, researchers and genealogists and need your help.

Together we want to map the genetic origins of the...

Here is a link to a fully searchable database containing over 64,000 names of people known to have migrated to England between 1330 and 1550.

For the first time, scientists have been able to extract DNA from ancient East Asian bones and compare it to the DNA of the people there today. It turns out that modern East Asians, unlike Europeans, are very genetically similar to their ancestors — and...