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Here is a link to an online guide to DNA testing published by Richard Hill to help genealogists, adoptees, and anyone interested paternity testing or sibling testing.  You can also download Richard's Guide to DNA Testing for free from this same page.

One of our members, Doyle Phillips, sent us the following link to a membership page for the UEL Association of Canada that contains the surname Phillips:

http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Info/loyalist_list.php?letter=p

Here is Doyle's message:

In the...

The following tests were underway at FTDNA as of 21 August 2011:

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

08/22/2011, 417, 191795, Y-DNA 37

08/29/2011, 418, 181543, Refine 37 to 67 markers

09/16/2011, 422, 208358, Y-DNA 37

09/23/2011, 423, 210107, Y-DNA...

Neil Schwartzman, a 50 year-old Canadian activist who works to stop the spread of junk email, has seen his fair share of fake come-ons. But the email he got in May was different. It was a message from another 23andMe user showing that they were...

The People of the British Isles project intends to collect up to 5000 DNA samples from diverse regions of the British Isles, taking great care to sample individuals with several generations of ancestry in rural locations. These samples are intended to...