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Ancestry.com announced back in June of 2014 that they would be retiring their Y-DNA and mtDNA tests and that the company would be destroying the Y-DNA and mtDNA samples that they had in storage.  Apparently the

The world of genealogy has seen a tremendous number of company buy-outs and partnerships over the past few years.  A woman named Alona Tester did some research and published her findings at this

A DNA study has shed light on the importance of Viking women in the colonization of the British Isles in the Middle Ages, suggesting that Viking men were family-orientated and not as blood-thirsty as previously

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Many of us will be enjoying dinners and other festive occasions this week with our relatives. I would suggest this is a great time to compare notes with the relatives. Indeed, older members of the family may know a