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Shares of Ancestry.com soared a week ago when rumours circulated that the leading genealogy website operator is about to put itself up for sale.  The speculative buzz comes nearly a month after the stock tumbled when NBC revealed it would not to...

Here is a link to an interview on Nick Barratt and Laura Berry's new Family History Show vodcast with Dick Eastman in which Dick predicts that the future of genealogy is DNA.  The Family History Show is a monthly video poscast or 'vodcast' where...

Phillips Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 06/10/2012:

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

06/11/2012, 458, 233001, Y-DNA 67 + Mt-DNA

06/27/2012, 463, 206072, MT- DNA

07/20/2012, 465, 240386, Y-DNA 37

07/25/2012, 467, 69666, DF13 SNP Test

Researchers agree that our immediate ancestors, the upright walking apes, arose in Africa. But the discovery of a new primate that lived about 37 million years ago in the ancient swamplands of Myanmar bolsters the idea that the deep primate family tree...

Here is a link to a recent article in Nature, the international weekly journal of science, about ancestry testing.  Some of the info in this article is incorrect (ie, the statement about 23andMe offering full genome tests at a cost of US $300-400)....