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A Phillips family from Cardiff, Wales, models for Disney, Mercedes and Cadbury.  Children aged one to fifteen star in adverts with their parents.  Mr. Phillips says his wholesome family is a Welsh version of the Waltons.  Click here to read more in...

A man from Lakeland, Florida, has started an online petition requesting Ancestry.com to reconsider and find an alternative to the planned destruction of Y-DNA and mtDNA samples in their database.  Here is what he says in the petition:

A number of...

Ancestry.com announced yesterday that they are discontinuing their Y-DNA and mtDNA tests and all the stored Y-DNA and mtDNA samples will be destroyed on the 5th of September.  If you were tested at Ancestry.com, you should download your test results...

Member Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 06/03/2014

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

03/28/2014, 544, 191679, Big Y

05/22/2014, 553, 324238, Y-DNA 67

05/22/2014, 563, 85045, Mt-DNA Full Sequence

05/29/2014, 565, 326722, Backbone

05/29/2014,...

By now you have realized our website has a new look.  The color scheme hasn't changed much, but pages are a little more spaced out, the font is slightly larger, and hopefully you will find it easier to read.  Our site turned 5 years old back in the...