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The Phillips DNA Project's newsletter has been posted on this website under the News tab.  This month the newsletter contains information on the status of our Phillips DNA Project, an article about Tobias Phillips of Phillips Family DNA Group 17 and...

Ancestry.com announced that its shareholders have approved the company's $1.6 billion buyout by Permira.  The deal was first announced in October.  Click here to read more in Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter.

Dr. Eric Topol, the Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and the Chief Academic Officer for Scripps Health, has an interesting 6-minute summary of what it was like for him to recently have his entire genome sequenced.  This...

A source with knowledge of the excavation says archaeologists will name the skeleton found beneath a Leicester car park in September as the Plantagenet king even if long-awaited DNA results on the bones prove inconclusive.  Click here to read more...

Phillips Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 12/24/2012:

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

01/03/2013, 490, 238578, Deep Clade

01/09/2013, 491, 134671, MT-HVR2 to Mega

01/09/2013, 491, 191679, Refine 67 to 111 markers

01/09/2013, 491, 196882, L2,...