Bennett Greenspan – The Future of Genetic Genealogy

Bennett Greenspan – The Future of Genetic Genealogy

Bennett Greenspan, one of the founders of Family Tree DNA, spoke about “The Future of Genetic Genealogy” at the Southern California Genealogy Society conference this week.  The SCGS has been gracious enough to provide a video of the livestream. High points...
The New Root – Haplogroup A00

The New Root – Haplogroup A00

Now that things have calmed down a bit from the whirlwind of the Family Tree DNA Conference, I’d like to write in a little more comprehensive and sane manner about the revelation that we have a new root on the human tree. I’m referring to the session given by Bonnie...
Three percent of men in Northern Ireland have Pict DNA, study finds

Three percent of men in Northern Ireland have Pict DNA, study finds

Three percent of men in Northern Ireland and roughly one in 200 men in Ireland carry the DNA ScotlandDNA, an ancestry testing company, discovered a DNA marker that strongly suggests that ten percent of Scotsmen are directly descended from the Picts, the Gaels’ fierce...