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Every school aged child in the United States learns about the "shot heard 'round the world" and the American Revolution, but how many have seen the faces of the men and women who lived it? Maureen Taylor spent ten years uncovering and...

Want to find birth announcements, marriages, obituaries, and even social gossip about your ancestors?  NewspaperArchive often is the place to look. NewspaperArchive.com focuses on small, local newspapers. Those papers typically contain news...

Family Tree is now live on FamilySearch.org and available to all users.  This opens up the contribution, collaboration, editing and sourcing tools of Family Tree to researchers - including family members - around the world.  Click here to read more in...

Phillips Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 03/07/2013:

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

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

03/11/2013, 497, 60411, Refine 67 to 111 markers

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

03/29/2013, 501, 267404, Y-DNA...

University of Arizona geneticists have discovered the oldest known genetic branch of the human Y chromosome, the hereditary factor determining male sex.  The new divergent lineage, which was found in an individual who submitted his DNA to Family...