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New Y-DNA results returned from the FTDNA lab for the following participants over the past month.   These participants were added to various groups as follows:

196582 was added to Family

The following tests were underway at FTDNA as of 13 March 2011:

In February of this year, a new conference designed to bring technologists together with genealogists was held in Salt Lake City.  The keynote speech on Friday February 11th was delivered by Curt Witcher, the

Modern humans likely originated in southern Africa, rather than eastern Africa as is generally assumed, according to the results of a large study of genetic variation.  Click...

In what is now central Alaska, one of the first Americans was laid to rest in a pit inside his or her house 11,500 years ago.  If the remains yield usable DNA, the child could help uncover just who was living