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DNA testing to establish ancestry are becoming very popular and are being offered by several companies. As the knowledge about the genetic composition of human populations accumulates, the manufacturers are including more markers to their tests in order to make them more accurate and span more ancestral lineages.
Geneticists from the Department of Genetics, University of […]

After a huge, three-year effort, a genealogy research company in Britain has made available online a vast database with the British phonebooks from 1880 through 1984. This project required about 2,000 books to be digitalised and transferred into the database that can be queried through the Ancestry website. The main purpose for this initiative is […]

An increasing number of people are using commercial genetic tests to look into their ancestry. However, these tests can have important limitations according to Deborah Bolnick, assistant professor of anthropology at The University of Texas at Austin. In a recent article published in the prestigious journal Science Bolnick and a team of researchers from different […]

Being a Native American in the United States was never as advantageous as it is now. Today many Native Americans are queuing up to get their ancestry verified through DNA testing. The rush is because; being of Indian descent may make one eligible for tribal membership, federal aid or a stake in the tribal profits […]