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Family Tree DNA is holding a Summer Sale through the month of August on its DNA tests. Here is a link to a page where you can order a DNA test and be automatically included in our Phillips DNA Project. Please be aware that only the Y-DNA tests work...

Sometimes people ask how their Y-DNA can be matched to someone who is deceased if there is no Y-DNA from the deceased person for comparison purposes. The method is called triangulation and it works like this. You identify and test two living men...

In addition to the Phillips men in our family groups, we have 262 Phillips men in the project who do not match any other Phillips men in the project. We call these men Singletons and they represent approximately 25% of the membership with the...

Your Y chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) test results cannot be used to indicate your percentage of DNA from different ancestral groups. This is because tracing your Y-DNA line only leads back to one origin. A man receives his Y chromosome from his father,...