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When he was a student at Yale, Henry Louis Gates Jr. took a course known as "biology for poets." Now the Harvard humanities scholar is a zealot of genetic science.  Since his original "African American Lives" miniseries, which explored the heritage...

Click here to watch a recent webinar presented by Legacy Family Tree that goes beyond the basics in understanding DNA research for genealogists.

Phillips Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 04/08/2012:

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

04/11/2012, 452, 226311, Mt-DNA Plus

04/18/2012, 453, 207489, Z58 SNP test

04/18/2012, 453, 221522, Deep Clade test

04/20/2012, 452, 229789, Y-DNA 37

The phrase "natural son" in a will meant one thing and one thing only: an acknowledged child of the testator who had been born out of wedlock. The only meaning the phrase had in the law in that context back then was "a bastard; a child born out of...

On April 2nd, after a long wait of 72 years, the 1940 census was released, and in a historic first, the collection has emerged online in digitized form. Last year, the National Archives and Records Administration selected Archives.com to build and...