Archived Blog Posts

Here is a link to an interesting video by a man who used DNA testing to learn the surname of his biological father.  Thanks to member Doyle Phillips for this tip.

Imagine being able to collect the DNA of a human ancestor who's been dead for tens of thousands of years from the dirt on the floor of a cave. Sounds fantastic, but scientists in Germany think they may be able to do just that. If they're...

The National Geographic's Genographic project gives us surprising information about Arab genetic makeup.  Here is a link to the story on stepfeed.com.

Member Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 1/9/2017

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

01/25/2017, 689, 71714, Family Finder

01/25/2017, 701, 74772, L21v2 SNP Pack

02/01/2017, 706, 19622, mtFull Sequence

02/08/2017, 707, 26200, Y-DNA 67 +...

Here is a link to an interesting lecture given a few weeks ago by Dr. Jennifer Raff who has published rather extensively on Native American DNA.  In this lecture, she talks about pseudoscience and pseudogenetics which is used to construct genetic...