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Family Tree DNA's 7th International Conference on Genetic Genealogy was held last weekend.  Here is a link to a report on the first day of the conference written by CeCe Moore.

The following tests were underway at FTDNA as of 6 November 2011:

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

11/02/2011, 430, 210403, Refine 37 to 67 markers and Deep Clade

11/07/2011, 428, 198908, Refine 37 to 67 markers

11/09/2011, 431, 180250, Refine 67...

Two hundred randomly chosen Cornell undergraduate volunteers lined up in Kennedy Hall Feb. 1, 2011 to provide a cheek swab for DNA to test their deep ancestries for the new Cornell Genetic Ancestry Project. Their genetic histories were revealed...

Most Icelanders have heard a story of somebody, who knew somebody, who found out a bit late in the game that the subject of their romance was actually an estranged cousin. That's one of the reasons Islendingabok (the Book of Icelanders) has been so widely...

The November issue of the newsletter has been posted on this website on the News page where you can elect to read it in PDF, XPS or plain text format.  This month the newsletter contains a report on the new records section of our website, an article on...