Web Sites Offer DNA Testing

Two services launching just a week apart tap a growing interest in DNA testing to help people find their ancestors and learn more about their lives.

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In 1850, the elderly master of a South Carolina estate took pen in hand and painstakingly divided up his possessions. Among the spinning wheels, scythes, tablecloths and cattle that he bequeathed to his far-flung heirs was a 6-year-old slave girl valued soon afterward at $475.

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Now it is possible to tell from just one drop of saliva what path your ancestors took as they migrated from Africa – and population geneticist Dr Jim Wilson is keen to tell you.

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For two decades, researchers have been using a growing volume of genetic data to debate whether ancestors of Native Americans emigrated to the New World in one wave or successive waves, or from one ancestral Asian population or a number of different populations.

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A genetic map of Africa - the continent from which all modern humans originate - has provided information about its huge diversity of language and culture. It is the result of the largest African genetic study ever undertaken.

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Nine times out of 10, when genealogy enthusiasts root around in their family closet, they don't find more than what they expected to find. But that 10th time, they might find what Linda Hayes found — a huge skeleton. "It was life-altering," says Linda

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The plantation where Michelle Obama's great-great-grandfather lived is tucked behind the tyre stores and veterinary clinics of Highway 521. But its history and grounds have been meticulously preserved, down to the dykes that controlled the flow of water into its expansive rice f …

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Healthly Lifestyles Have Rules T0 Follow

My great aunt is 104 years old. Generations are living for shorter periods of time. I have asked myself why? When I was priviledged to live with her, she shared many secrets with me. Yes, the elderly have life experience and life's wisdom.

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Examining mitochondrial DNA obtained from cheek swabs taken from Alaskan natives reveals that none were related to the 10,000-year-old Alaskan found on Prince of Wales Island -- but they were related to coastal Indians in British Coumbia.

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Here's another argument against intelligent design.

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This thing is creepy. It looks kinda big too. It looks like the Alien (from the movie series), or a cross between the baby and the mama. More Articles

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Scientists are talking for the first time about the old idea of resurrecting extinct species as if this staple of science fiction is a realistic possibility, saying that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated for as little as $10 million. More Articles

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Don Camillo

On Superior Street, in a quiet, neighborly part of Angola, Indiana, a three-story Victorian-era house painted bright shades of pastel pinks and blues stands as a monument to the town's history.

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Many of the world's deep-sea octopuses evolved from a common ancestor that still exists in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean, a study has shown. More Articles

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With the election tomorrow, let's think briefly about what presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, and vice presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin have in common. For sure, it's a bit of Irish.

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Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are not the only political odd couple who share a family tree. Sarah Palin is linked in her lineage to Franklin Roosevelt. She also has a connection with Princess Diana.

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The Other Grandfather

A person in my life that I would meet is my mother's father. He died of alcoholism and tertiary syphilis before I was born. I have a lot of questions and comments. To protect the innocent and even the not so innocent, I will call him "Tog" in this article.

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Barack Hussein Obama's name "is a name to be proud of. It is an American name. It is a blessed name. It is a heroic name, as heroic and American in its own way as the name of Gen. Omar Nelson Bradley or the name of Benjamin Franklin.

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FamilySearch, a non-profit organization operating out of Salt Lake City, is partnering with Ancestry.com to publish complete U.S. census records from 1790 to 1930. (via American Libraries Direct)

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"That's history," he says. "It's not mine, but it's somebody's." It's also another image of a tombstone at Denton's I.O.O.F. Cemetery, another digital photograph headed for a life on Mr. Wheatley's web site.

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Now Genealogy Today, an online magazine, is featuring a stunning document that questions the ancestry of our 16th president even further. Maybe Honest Abe wasn't really a Lincoln at all. The document, available in its entirety on line, was written by R. Vincent Enlow.

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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and The Generations Network, Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com, today announced an agreement that makes millions of historical records more easily available to the American public.

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The Druze people of Israel are a genetic sanctuary of ancient lineages of DNA, researchers reported on Wednesday.

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The new online data of Criminal Trials is giving a few people a few shocks.

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The Vatican's recent ban on Mormon microfilming and digitizing of Catholic parish records out of concern they will be used for the LDS practice of baptizing the dead may have a wide-ranging and chilling effect on the whole family history enterprise, some professional genealogists …

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"Head lice taken from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru support the idea that the little creatures accompanied humans on their first migration out of Africa, 100,000 years ago, researchers reported on Wednesday."

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