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• 01/22/2012: DNA tests in progress at Family Tree DNA

  Created: Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:33

  Phillips Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 01/22/2012: Due Date, Batch #, Kit #, Type of Test 01/23/2012, 439, 54019, Backbone test 01/27/2012, 441, 219553, Y-DNA 37 02/03/2012, 442, 220348, Y-DNA 67 02/08/2012, 444, N38121, HVR2 02/10/2012, 443, 221...

• 01/16/2012: Four months of celebrity roots on air in 2012

  Created: Monday, 16 January 2012 19:52

  For genealogy buffs and those who just can't get enough of celebrities, there's plenty of cause to celebrate in 2012 as there will be four solid months of famous roots on air. Barring any schedule adjustments, the heritage of one to three celebrities will...

• 01/14/2012: DNA tests in progress at Family Tree DNA

  Created: Saturday, 14 January 2012 18:32

  Phillips Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 01/14/2012: Due Date, Batch #, Kit #, Type of Test 01/23/2012, 439, 54019, Backbone test 01/27/2012, 441, 219553, Y-DNA 37 02/03/2012, 442, 220348, Y-DNA 67 02/08/2012, 444, N38121, HVR2 02/10/2012, 443, 221...

• 01/12/2012: So you have your DNA results, now what?

  Created: Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:08

  You've given your sample, waited for the results, and now you know a little more about your own DNA. But now what?  Click here to read suggestions from GeneTree News....

• 01/10/2012: Top 100 Most Popular Genealogy Websites

  Created: Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:07

  Here is a link to a list at GenealogyInTime Magazine that lists the 100 most popular genealogy websites as of January 2012: click here....

• 01/08/2012: Lost Colony of Roanoke and DNA

  Created: Sunday, 08 January 2012 18:02

  DNA could answer a centuries-old mystery about the Lost Colony of Roanoke on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.  Click here to read the story in The Scientist....

• 01/07/2012: DNA tests in progress at Family Tree DNA

  Created: Saturday, 07 January 2012 17:44

  Phillips Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 01/07/2012: Due Date, Batch #, Kit #, Type of Test 01/23/2012, 439, 54019, Backbone test 01/27/2012, 441, 219553, Y-DNA 37 02/03/2012, 442, 220348, Y-DNA 67 02/08/2012, 444, N38121, HVR2 02/10/2012, 443, 221...

• 01/06/2012: How many ancestors share our DNA?

  Created: Friday, 06 January 2012 15:58

  There is a difference between a genetic tree and a genealogical tree.  The distinction is that your genealogical tree is the family tree of all your ancestors, but your genetic tree only contains those ancestors that actually left DNA to you.  C...

• 01/03/2012: Family Tree DNA has extended their sale to January 7th

  Created: Tuesday, 03 January 2012 16:20

  We just learned that FTDNA has extended their Holiday sale to Saturday, January 7th.  Here is a link to the registration page: http://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=PhillipsThe sales prices are in red....

• 01/02/2012: January issue of Phillips DNA Project's newsletter

  Created: Monday, 02 January 2012 16:47

  The January issue of our newsletter has been posted under the News tab located in the blue bar above.  Just click on the News tab and you can elect to read the newsletter in PDF, XPS or plain text format.  This month the newsletter contains info...

• 12/31/2011: DNA tests in progress at Family Tree DNA

  Created: Saturday, 31 December 2011 16:36

  Phillips Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 12/31/2011: Due Date, Batch #, Kit #, Type of Test 01/04/2012, 439, 54019, Backbone test 01/27/2011, 441, 219553, Y-DNA 37 02/03/2011, 442, 220348, Y-DNA 67 02/10/2011, 443, 221522, Y-DNA 37 02/08/2011, 444,...

• 12/29/2011: DNA testings' pros & cons weighed by Roots & Branches

  Created: Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:18

  Roots and Branches Internet reader Eric "Rick" Bender of New Mexico has been considering the use of DNA in an attempt to break a logjam in his Bender ancestry, which is proved only to 1807 in northern Lebanon County.Basically, if he submits his genetic ma...

• 12/27/2011: U.S. Social Security access policies change

  Created: Tuesday, 27 December 2011 17:38

  Genealogists searching for ancestors or extended family in the United States have access to the Social Security Death Index (SSDI). It is one of the largest databases containing genealogical information in the country, and it used to be easy to obtain ful...

• 12/25/2011: DNA tests in progress at Family Tree DNA

  Created: Sunday, 25 December 2011 18:23

  Phillips Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 12/25/2011: Due Date, Batch #, Kit #, Type of Test 12/23/2011, 436, 217625, Haplogroup prediction 01/04/2012, 439, 39621, Refine 67 to 111 markers 01/04/2012, 439, 54019, Backbone test 01/27/2011, 441, 219553...

• 12/22/2011: Among the GOP candidates, Romney leads the presidential cousin derby

  Created: Thursday, 22 December 2011 16:14

  Mitt Romney doesn’t just have presidential hair; he’s got presidential genes. The former Massachusetts governor is trying to make the case to GOP voters that he’s more suited for the White House than his rivals for the nomination. And he might ...

• 12/20/2011: Where did my ancestors come from?

  Created: Tuesday, 20 December 2011 16:25

  Wow, one of our project participants is mentioned in Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter! Congratulations, Myron! Here is the opening paragraph to the article: Myron Phillips wrote to tell about a mapping site that contains information about the ...

• 12/18/2011: DNA tests in progress at Family Tree DNA

  Created: Sunday, 18 December 2011 17:36

  Phillips Tests in Progress at FTDNA as of 12/18/2011: Due Date, Batch #, Kit #, Type of Test12/23/2011, 436, 217625, Haplogroup prediction 12/28/2011, 438, 69666, SNP test 01/04/2012, 439, 39621, Refine 67 to 111 markers 01/04/2012, 439, 54019, Backbo...

• 12/17/2011: FTDNA is holding a Holiday sale on DNA tests

  Created: Saturday, 17 December 2011 00:00

  As we approach the holiday season, we feel having one BIG promotion for a sufficient amount of time best supports our volunteer Administrators, in their effort to recruit new members. Current members will also benefit by having simultaneously reduced pric...

• 12/16/2011: Researchers believe cloning a woolly mammoth is within reach

  Created: Wednesday, 07 December 2011 17:34

  In the past few years, global warming has melted large swaths of Siberian permafrost, revealing several preserved mammoths, which  went extinct about 10,000 years ago. Now, teams from the Sakha Republic mammoth museum and Kinki University in Japan pl...

• 12/13/2011: A Danish science writer takes a closer look at how DNA influences who we are

  Created: Wednesday, 07 December 2011 17:31

  When Danish science writer Lone Frank was orphaned at 43, she felt that she was alone, "without a source, without a history." She became interested in tracing her heritage, to know which genetic variants had come down to her and how "these accidents of b...