ISOGG's DNA NEWS ARCHIVES - Sorted by date/category

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DNA confirms IDs of czar's children, ending mystery - Excite News - 1 May 2008
DNA expert to speak at historical society meeting - The Troy Messenger - 25 Apr 2008
Humans nearly wiped out 70,000 years ago - CNN.com - 24 Apr 2008
DNA tests could force a rewrite of city's history book - L.A. Times - 6 Apr 2008
Tamil Nadu Family Traces Roots to 70,000 Years Back
- Ground Report - 5 Apr 2008
Computer Program Reveals Anyone's Ancestry - LiveScience - 4 Apr 2008
DNA may solve mystery of Anastasia - Charlotte Observer - 3 Apr 2008
New Evidence of Earliest North Americans
- The S.F. Examiner - 3 Apr 2008
U.S. scientist seeks Dene saliva swabs to track human journey
- CBC News - 1 Apr 2008
When oral history meets genetics
- The Jerusalem Post - 30 Mar 2008
Crusaders sowed seeds of modern Beirut
- Times Online - 28 Mar 2008
Finding deep roots, new genomics software infers ancestry with high accuracy
- Stanford News Service - 19 Mar 2008

General:

BBC genealogy show bought by NBC - The Guardian - 11 Mar 2008
Genome studies show that humans are all mixed up
-
Philadelphia Inquirer - 22 Feb 2008

Public can get genes tested - Houston Chronicle - 13 Jan 2008
Tracing Lineage With DNA -
ABC News - 4 Dec 2007

A background check for human posterity
- Boston Globe - 25 Sep 2007 - Boston Globe - 25 Sep 2007
DNA Helps Get To The Roots Of The Problem - The Day.com - 24 Sep 2007
Library program to explain DNA testing in genealogy - Cincinnati Post - 24 Sep 2007

Experts to delve into DNA’s role in genealogy
- Lebanon Daily News - 13 Sep 2007
Genetic Genealogy - What Can It Offer? - BBC - 24 Aug 2007

Goal for DNA research? World peace - USA Today - 2 Jul 2007
Daughters of Eve in DNA paintings
- BBC News - 4 Jun 2007
Finding your own history
- dailynews.com - 3 Jun 2007
DNA testing helps find lost legacies and cements connections
-
dailynews.com - 3 Jun 2007
DNA accepted as Mayflower descent proof
- Bangor Daily News - 28 May 2007 
A DNA portrait of European history
- Telegraph - 18 May 2007
DNA unmasks Czech past
- The Prague Post - 25 Apr 2007
'Junk' DNA Now Looks Like Powerful Regulator, Scientists Find -
Science Daily - 24 Apr 2007
In DNA age, genealogy is anything but
a staid hobby - NY Times/IHT - 2 Apr 2007

Genes in fashion
-
InsideBayArea.com (Log-in Req.) - 15 Mar 2007
At a Harlem Reunion, a Rancher From Missouri Meets His ‘DNA Cousins’
  - NY Times (Log-in Req.) - 14 Mar 2007
Technology creates extreme genealogists
-
AP/Houston Chronicle - 4 Mar 2007
Reunited at last! This is David, the brother I lost just 1,000 years ago -
The Observer UK - 31 Dec 2006
DNA helps identify distant ancestors
- Presstelegram - Long Beach, CA - 7 Aug 2006

Who's your great-great-great-great-granddaddy?
- NYTimes/Orange County Register - 11 Jun 2006
Can DNA Reveal Your Roots?
- TIME Magazine - 3 Jul 2005
The DNA Connection - AARP - Mar/Apr 2005
Detective work solves a genetic mystery - The University of Sidney - 25 July 2003
Why the Dysons keep faith in their genes
- Telegraph - 14 Jun 2001

Famous DNA:

The Lt. Governor's DNA: A Citizen of the World - NYNow - 13 Feb 2008
Canadians identify child aboard Titanic - USA Today - 31 Jul 2007
Mommy, where do Bonos come from?
- Vanity Fair - 20 Jun 2007
Team hopes DNA is clue to Lost Colony mystery
- The Virginian-Pilot - 11 Jun 2007
African American Seeks to Prove A Genetic Link to James Madison
- WashingtonPost.com - 11 Jun 2007
Chromosomes of Genghis Khan
- Science Daily - 21 May 2007
Joan of Arc's relics are Fake
- LiveScience.com - 4 Apr 2007
Study Raises Possibility of Jewish Tie for Jefferson
- NY Times (Log-in Req.) - 28 Feb 2007
DNA clue to presidential puzzle
- BBC News - 6 Feb 2007

Bone fragment likely not Joan of Arc
-
MSNBC - 17 Dec 2006
Only Connect
- St. Petersburg Times - 1 Dec 2006
Who really sailed the ocean blue in 1492? - Christian Science Monitor - 17 Oct 2006
Historian wants DNA test for academy's John Paul Jones - The Capital - 16 Apr 2006

DNA test for Joan of Arc - Guardian Unlimited - 14 Feb 2006
Scientists to use DNA tests to trace Colombus lineage - New Zealand Herald - 13 Jan 2006
Jamestown DNA sleuths strike out - MSNBC - 10 Nov 2005
Y chromosomes reveal founding father - Nature - 24 Oct 2005
Billy the Kid: Case closed - MSNBC - 27 Sep 2004

Ancient DNA:

Months after mummy claim, DNA science still lags - CTV.ca - 20 Dec 2007
One-third of Maltese found to have ancient Phoenician DNA
- The Malta Independent Online - 16 Sep 2007
DNA from Spit Helps Decode Lives of Early Settlers
- NPR - 27 Aug 2007
Initial DNA Analysis Support Identification of Queen Hatshepsut - GeneticArchaeology.com - 17 Jul 2007
Study: Neanderthal Genome Map Possible - Discovery Channel - 26 Jun 2007
Ancient Etruscans were immigrants from Anatolia, or what is now Turkey
- EurekaAlert! - 16 Jun 2007
European Man Found in Ancient Chinese Tomb, Study Reveals -
National Geographic News - 24 May 2007
DNA Boosts Herodotus’ Account of Etruscans as Migrants to Italy
- New York Times
(Log-in Req.) - 3 Apr 2007
Modern Technology Reveals Mummy's Past
- AP/AOL News - 16 Mar 2007
Prehistoric lovers found locked in eternal embrace
- CNN - 7 Feb 2007
'Better' DNA out of fossil bones
- BBC News - 19 Sep 2005
Ancient Hair Gives Up DNA Secrets
- ABC News - 22 Jun 2004
DNA links cave man to British teacher - LA Times - Mar 1997

African DNA:

Dayton Roots - University of Dayton - 22 Jan 2008
Links with Africa are forged anew -
dailypress.com - 6 Nov 2007
"Roots" searches dig into DNA - The Denver Post - 16 Oct 2007

Reweaving history - Dallas-Ft Worth Star Telegram - 19 Nov 2006
Written in the Blood
- AlterNet - 21 Sep 2006
When it comes to DNA, all roots lead to Africa
- The News Tribune.com - 21 Jan 2006

British Isles/Ireland DNA:

Guinness story moves from riches to rags - TimesOnline - 15 Dec 2007
Isles of the Hebrides DNA Project
- Islay Weblog - 9 Dec 2007

400-year-old Scots ready to reveal their battle secrets
- Scotsman.com - 12 Sep 2007 - Scotsman.com - 12 Sep 2007

New genealogy centre to create DNA library
- Sunday Herald - 29 Oct 2006
DNA test can detect Picts' descendants
- Telegraph - 14 Aug 2006
Millions of Men May Be Descended From Irish King, Study Says - National Geographic News - 20 Jan 2006
British Have Changed Little Since Ice Age, Gene Study Says
- National Geographic News - 19 Jul 2005
DNA test to tell if skull is Emmet's - breakingnews.ie - 8 Mar 2003
Hunt on for British Vikings - BBC - 6 Aug 2000

French DNA:

Réunis par leur ADN - LePoint - 9 Jun 2007

Jewish DNA:

Hispanic New Mexicans Intrigued by Hints of A Hidden Jewish Past - Albuquerque Times Online - 9 Dec 2006
Taking a Swipe at Genealogy
-
JewishTimes.com - 8 Dec 2006
Father Of ‘Mother’ DNA Study
- The Jewish Week - 7 Jul 2006
The DNA Detectives
- The UK Herald - 13 Jun 2006
Ashkenazi or Sephardi? DNA Unites Jewish Families, but Raises Questions
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies - 29 May 2006
Millions of Jews traced to four women
- MSNBC - 12 Jan 2006

Native-American DNA:

Mi'kmaq people one step closer - Advertiser - 13 Mar 2008
Indian DNA Links to Six 'Founding Mothers
'
- ABC News - 12 Mar 2008

Native American DNA found in UK - BBC News - 4 May 2007
First Americans Arrived Recently, Settled Pacific Coast, DNA Study Says
- National Geographic News - 2 Feb 2007 
DNA Ties Together Scattered Peoples
-
LA Times - 11 Sep 2006
Blood Feud
- Wired - Sep 2005
DNA Links Ancient, Modern Indians - Santa Clarita Signal - 22 May 2005

Russian DNA:

Relative to Roots - Newsweek (Russian version) - Jan 2007

 

 

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