• Member Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 12/05/2015

     

    Today more Americans claim descent from at least one Cherokee ancestor than any other Native American group. Across the United States, Americans tell and retell stories of long-lost Cherokee ancestors.  Read more

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  • Family Tree DNA has announced the launch of their 2015 Holiday Sale!  It will end on December 31st at 11:59 PM Central Time.  Here are the sale prices on various Y-DNA tests:

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  • A new study of the matrilineal kin of Abraham Lincoln's mother Nancy Hanks has demonstrated that Lincoln's mitochondrial DNA belonged to a very rare haplogroup X1c, and has provided evidence of the maternal

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  • Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. hopes to trigger a love for science, technology and math among American students by turning them on to searching for their family roots.

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