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The Georgia Archives are slated to be closed to the public as of November 1.  Georgia will then be the only state in the USA not to have archives available for genealogical research.  Click here if you want to sign a petition to leave Georgia's...

Three private equity firms, including Hellman & Friedman LLC, are still pursuing a potential buyout of Ancestry.com, according to three different sources.  Click here to read more in Reuters.

A parking lot in Leicester, England, is not where you would expect to find the grave of one of England's most notorious kings.  But years of painstaking research along with cutting edge technology involving DNA analysis have led a team of experts to this...

Phillips Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 09/08/2012:

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

09/05/2012, 473, 231809, Refine 67 to 111 markers

09/14/2012, 473, 246259, Y-DNA 37 + MT-DNAPlus

09/19/2012, 475, 135549, DYS565

10/03/2012, 477,...

Long stretches of DNA previously dismissed as "junk" are in fact crucial to the way our genome works, says an international team of researchers.  It is the most significant shift in scientists' understanding of the way our DNA operates since the...