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Complaints by indigenous leaders and local officials have blocked a plan by geneticists with the National Geographic Society to collect DNA from the remote Q'eros tribe in Peru as part of the Genographic Project, which seeks molecular clues to...

Dick Eastman recently printed a question in his Online Genealogy Newsletter from one of his newsletter readers.  The question was how to find copies of two old, out-of-print genealogy books.  Dick asked for useful suggestions from his readership and...

The following tests were underway at FTDNA as of 22 May 2011:

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

05/25/2011, 407, 181871, Refine 37 to 67 markers

06/01/2011, 408, 50263, Refine 67 to 111 markers

06/06/2011, 406, 16530, Deep Clade

06/06/2011,...

The German and US governments are investigating new allegations that Holocaust survivor Alex Kurzem's wartime memoir is false.  His international best-selling book "The Mascot" portrayed him as a five-year-old Russian Jew who survived the Holocaust by working...

A DNA test that can show how fast someone is ageing is slated to go on sale to the general public later this year.  The controversial test measures vital structures on the tips of a person's chromosomes, called telomeres, which scientists believe are...