With the first UK ‘walk-in’ DNA Testing facility now open, DNA Diagnostic Centre UK confirms large numbers of families are being re-united through DNA immigration testing services.
A DNA test could pinpoint the roots of a persons family to within a few miles, according to a new study.Edinburgh University experts found genetic testing can detect the origins of people from a rural area to within five miles of their family home.
A simple DNA test could pinpoint the roots of a person’s family to within a few miles, according to a new study.
Sixty percent of Americans (183 million) have ancestors who lived in America during the Revolutionary War, according to Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource. This and other estimations regarding how present-day Americans relate to this country’s founding are being made available to celebrate today’s launch on Ancestry.com of one of the premier collections of Revolutionary War records.
Records detail the British soldiers who were killed, wounded, captured or died of disease during the Second Boer War – online today at Ancestry.co.uk. Boer War was fought between the British Empire and Dutch settlers in South Africa | Collection features more than 55,000 records of deaths, injuries and captures | Details soldiers ‘missing’ from the 1901 Census because they were fighting overseas. (PRWeb Jun 25, 2010)
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/boer-war-casualty-lists/1901-census-records/prweb4181364.htm
Roll of Honour details the military careers of Gateshead’s First World War soldiers – published online at Ancestry.co.uk today. Collection features over 4,000 photographs of soldiers | Includes original newspaper clippings of acts of bravery and sacrifice. (PRWeb Jun 25, 2010)
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/gateshead-roll-of-honour/ww1-army-service-records/prweb4181314.htm
Want to know more about your genetic roots? Then you are not alone. Most tests trace your maternal and paternal lines, by examining genetic markers on the mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from mother to child, or on the Y chromosome, passed from father to son. Like the roots of a tree, however, your genetic roots keep branching the deeper you look: tracing just two of these lines tells you nothing about all the others.
via Genome at 10: Meet your ancestors – life – 24 June 2010 – New Scientist.
PROVO, Utah, June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Royalty and vampires may sound like characters from the Twilight Saga – but they’re actually what you find once you bite into Robert Pattinson’s past. Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, says Pattinson – America
Findmypast.co.uk publishes online Chelsea Pensioners’ British Army Service Records 1873-1900, providing colourful insights into the lives of ordinary ranking soldiers born in the UK and worldwide.
Leading family history website findmypast.co.uk has published online for the first time nearly half a million military service records of men who were pensioned out of the British Army between 1873 and 1900 and who received a pension administered through the Royal Hospital at Chelsea. Findmypast.co.uk has been working in association with The National Archives for nearly two years to scan, transcribe and publish these records online.
Known as “WO 97″ at The National Archives, the first tranche of these records are now available to search online at findmypast.co.uk for the first time ever. Once complete, the entire collection will comprise over 6 million full colour images of the service records of soldiers in the British Army in receipt of a pension administered by The Royal Hospital Chelsea, and who were discharged between the dates 1760 and 1913. Many of the soldiers listed will have served in some of Britain’s most significant wars, including the Battle of Waterloo, the Crimean and both Boer Wars.
The details that can be found in these records are invaluable to family and military historians, providing a rich and colourful story of people’s family history, with a level of detail that is hard to find in any other historical records. The information could include the soldier’s date and place of birth, name and address of next of kin, height, hair and eye colour, distinguishing features such as tattoos, rank and regiment, occupation before joining the army, medical history and when and where the soldier served.
Debra Chatfield of findmypast.co.uk, said: “The Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records are a rich resource for family historians. For each soldier you’ll find a minimum of 4 pages of information, including a physical description and details of other family members such as dates of their baptism and marriage. These fascinating, detailed records enable you to find out so much about your soldier ancestors, even including what they looked like, long before the invention of photography.”
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