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Click here to read or listen to an uplifting story on CBS News about how a brother and sister discovered the existence of each other through online DNA testing.

Here is a link to an interesting article in the Genes Reunited Blog that discusses two sets of genealogical records most frequently used in the UK.

FamilySearch has released a video and a written description of changes announced recently at RootsTech.  Click here to read more and watch the video on Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter.

Phillips Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 04/15/2013:

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

01/31/2013, 494, 93184, Various SNPs

04/24/2013, 506, 229431, Y-DNA 37

04/24/2013, 506, 267404, Backbone

05/06/2013, 505, 111792, Family Finder

There is a Phillips inquiry in this month's WDYTYA Magazine at this link.  Thanks to Debbie Kennett for this tip.  Here is the text:

"My great grandfather was born on 23 February 1886 in St Pancras Workhouse. Named as Herman Phillips, the mother's...