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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 at ...

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:

Y-DNA 37 marker test for $139

Y-DNA 67 marker test for $228

Y-DNA 111...

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 ancestry of Nancy Hanks Lincoln.  Click ...

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.

"We're going to teach them about Y-DNA if you're a man, how you get...

Russian investigators said Monday that they will exhume the remains of Russian Tsar Alexander III to confirm the identity of two of his grandchildren, who were executed alongside their father, Tsar Nicholas II, by the Bolsheviks in 1918.  Click here to...