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President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Lynn Young, has written a blog about how the DAR will begin accepting Y-DNA as supportiing evidence for DAR applications in 2014.  Click

DNA is already used to store information in the form of genomes by every living organism on Earth.  Its prowess at that job is the reason that information scientists have been trying to co-opt it for

Think of a haplogroup as an ancestral clan, a large family, like the Celts or Vikings.  There are clans for the male Y chromosome and clans for maternal mitochondrial DNA.  Click

The largest annual genealogy event in the English-speaking world, possibly in the

Researchers have been able to trace a line between some of the earliest modern humans to settle in China and people living in the region today.  The evidence comes from DNA extracted from a 40,000 year