Quick Note! FamilyTreeDNA Offers Huge Discount on All Tests

Just a quick note:  I found this in my backlogged e-mail tonight.  Click "Continue reading" to activate this link: http://bit.ly/1bd0Elo.  For a short period of time, FamilyTreeDNA is offering significant discounts on a variety of tests but the orders need to be placed and paid by December 31, 2013.

Let me know what you think!

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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="203"] My Neanderthal DNA (Photo credit: jurvetson)[/caption]

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13,000,000 "Close" Family Members?!?!?

You've got to read this article.  An amazing amount of research combining traditional family research and a serious level of genetics involved!  Here's a link to "Nature - International Weekly Journal of Science". Please click "Continue reading" to activate the link.

Since there are so many people going back so many generations, I have to believe I have family in there somewhere. Nearly every genealogy class I hold in this area, I can usually find at least one cousin...distantly removed but a cousin nonetheless.  It's almost scary!

This chart is probably a little too short to do all the calculations...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300"] English: A chart illustrating the different types of cousins, including genetic kinship marked within boxes in red which shows the actual genetic degree of relationship (gene share) with 'self' in percentage (%). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]

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