It’s definitely a red-letter day. Dr. Paul Maier, the lead author on the new paper Mitotree: The Universal Human Mitochondrial Reference Phylogeny at 10x the Resolution has uploaded the paper to the bioRxiv preprint server, here. I want to congratulate all of the authors, most of whom are members of the FamilyTreeDNA R&D team as …
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Robert Vernon Estes (1931-1951): DNA and Hope for Military Repatriation
Robert Vernon Estes was my first cousin, my father’s brother’s son. I’m named after him, but I never knew him. He died years before I was born. Robert, known as Bobby, was born on March 27, 1931 in White County, Indiana. He, along with his unit, were captured near Kunu-ri in North Korea on November …
Philippe Mius d’Entremont: Y-DNA Provides Amazing Information – 52 Ancestors #478
In 2012, Pauline d’Entremont and Clark Robbins founded the Mius-dEntremont DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA. Denis Beauregard later adopted the project after Pauline retired and Clark passed away. I want to thank all three administrators, but especially Pauline and Clark. Without their early recruitment efforts, we would not be able to view these results and compare …