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Summer Sale at FTDNA

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Created: Monday, 01 August 2022 11:35

Last Updated: Monday, 01 August 2022 12:47

Published: Monday, 01 August 2022 11:35

Written by Nancy Kiser

Family Tree DNA is holding a Summer Sale through the month of August on its DNA tests. Here is a link to a page where you can order a DNA test and be automatically included in our Phillips DNA Project. Please be aware that only the Y-DNA tests work for the purposes of our project and the testee must be a man with the surname Phillips. We recommend the 37 marker Y-DNA test that is on sale for $99 plus postage.

Phillips from Wales

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Created: Wednesday, 24 August 2022 18:05

Last Updated: Wednesday, 24 August 2022 18:09

Published: Wednesday, 24 August 2022 18:05

Written by Nancy Kiser

Many Phillips in America firmly believe they descend from Phillips who emigrated from Wales. It is hard to say how this belief got started. It may just be the result of wishful thinking, because many Phillips in America would like to think they descend from an aristocratic Philipps family who lived in a castle called Picton located in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Y-DNA has now clearly proven we do not all descend from a single Phillips family, so it is impossible that we all trace back to the Picton Castle Philipps. The truth is Wales did not supply nearly as many immigrants to America as did England, Ireland and Scotland. Pembrokeshire itself supplied very few.

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Internet researchers

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Created: Tuesday, 20 September 2022 12:29

Last Updated: Tuesday, 20 September 2022 12:31

Published: Tuesday, 20 September 2022 12:29

Written by Nancy Kiser

This is a quote from an article written by Bettie Cummings Cook:

"The Internet has developed a new group of family searchers. Unfortunately, the experienced genealogist is in the minority. There is a new group of persons who know first how to use a computer and second want to locate others who can give them information about their families. Notice I do not call the second group genealogists because they are lacking in the skills to prepare them for productive research. Before the Internet, this person would have been the beginner genealogist sitting across the table from you in a library. The computer-user/researcher cruises the Internet hoping to find his family tree, unaware there is a more accurate way to find it using primary records. The cruiser, who in the past would have had no recourse except to go to a genealogical library and learn the skills, now sets up a webpage or a newsgroup in quest of the answers. He contributes uncited "merry-go-round" bits to others. His heart is in the right place but his ability to do research is not. He is totally oblivious to the fact he is doing more harm than good both to himself and others."