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DNA Tests Uncover African Ancestry and Surprising Connection to Thomas Jefferson
As the series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. begins its 10-week run on PBS, The Blog will feature posts from 23andMe’s Ancestry Ambassadors featuring their own stories about using DNA...
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Our Redheaded Jewish Grandmother
As the series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. begins its 10-week run on PBS, The Blog will feature posts from 23andMe’s Ancestry Ambassadors featuring their own stories about using DNA...
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Finding a Family’s Jewish Ancestry
As the series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. begins its 10-week run on PBS, The Blog will feature posts from 23andMe’s Ancestry Ambassadors featuring their own stories about using DNA...
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Ashkenazi and Me — Discovering Unknown Jewish Ancestry with 23andMe
Jennie Cole, c.1895 As the series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. begins its 10-week run on PBS, The Blog will feature posts from 23andMe’s Ancestry Ambassadors featuring their own...
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23andMe’s New Look at Ancestry
Over the last week 23andMe customers got a different view of their ancestry. Since we launched our new Ancestry Overview, customers now get a quick and comprehensive summary of what their DNA tells...
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The Keeper Of Memory
Mike Lattimore felt a mix of anxiety and dread about visiting Africa, so fraught it was with the scars of slavery. But standing on the shores of what is known as the “Slave River” near the Cape Coast...
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Making Connections with Relative Finder
Not all the discoveries made on 23andMe are quite as profound as Neil Schwartzman finding his half-sister and mother, but even when 23andMe’s Relative Finder links distant cousins together those...
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More at ICHG/ASHG: The Nuts and Bolts Behind Health and Ancestry
If you’re just joining us, our scientists are busy this week presenting findings from our research at ICHG/ASHG 2011 in Montreal.But not all of our scientific contributions are in the realm of genetic...
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Ancestry at 23andMe: Finding Connections
In our last post, Sheridan* responded to her potential fifth cousin Akina and discovered that she has a potential second cousin through 23andMe’s Relative Finder feature. All of this is exciting, but...
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Ancestry at 23andMe: What Can You Learn?
Genetic testing for ancestry is not a concept that most people encounter outside of popular TV shows and so when you hear about services such as 23andMe’s, you might be wondering what exactly it is...
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