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    At the 2008 Olympics, every man in the 100 meter final was a descendant of the slave trade.  Michael Johnson, who won gold at 200 meters and 400 meters in the 1996 Olympics, set out to discover whether

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    In 1891, a Phillips family literally dug up their family bible that had been buried in the grave of a relative 25 years earlier.  Click

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    Phillips Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 08/25/2012:

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    In her first two articles, genetic genealogist CeCe Moore covered DNA tests that are solely informative for two ancestral lines: the direct paternal line (Y-DNA) and the direct maternal line

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    Mitochondrial DNA (MT-DNA) testing is a great tool for discovering more about the females in your family tree.  As all dedicated genealogists have undoubtedly experienced, female ancestors are

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