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One of our members, Doyle Phillips, has volunteered to maintain a page called Phillips Surname in America Catalog to 1775 on this website.  It is located under Phillips Research which is under The Community in the blue bar across the top of this page....

Phillips Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 03/22/2013:

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

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

03/25/2013, 499, 262102, Y-DNA 67

03/25/2013, 499, 268404, MP7

04/05/2013, 502, 270935, Y-DNA 37 + MT-DNAPlus

A recent doctoral dissertation by Russian geneticist Oleg Balanovsky contains a number of fascinating maps pertaining to the distribution of both Y-DNA and mitochondrial DNA across Eurasia.  Click here to see the maps and read more in GeoCurrents.

An excellent BBC documentary called "Double Helix - The DNA Years" has been posted on You Tube at this link.

The announcement of the publication of Sense About Science’s new briefing on Sense about Genetic Ancestry Testing attracted substantial media coverage. However, some of the articles may have given the false impression that all DNA ancestry tests are...