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The Scotsman website and newspaper has published a fascinating article by Alistair Moffat and Dr. Jim Wilson about the DNA of Scotland.  As mentioned in the article, multiculturalism may not be fashionable in certain quarters nowadays, but it has a...

Descendants of Abraham Lincoln's assassin are pushing for a DNA test to finally resolve whether John Wilkes Booth escaped his well-recorded shooting death and lived for another forty years in Texas and Oklahoma.  Clickhere to read the entire story...

The March 2011 issue of the Phillips DNA project's newsletter has been posted.  Click on the News button in the blue bar on our home page and you can elect to read the newsletter in plain text, PDF or XPF.

This month the newsletter contains...

The following tests were in progress at FTDNA as of 27 February 2011:

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

03/11/2011, 395, 196582, Y-DNA 37

03/14/2011, 394, 195004, Y-DNA 67

03/14/2011, 394, 195746, Y-DNA 67

03/18/2011, 396, 196447, Y-DNA 37

Evidence shows cannibalism was once routine in ancient Britain among the first people to settle the land after the deep freeze of the last Ice Age.  Click here to read an interesting story about it in the Daily Mail.