“The previously staid world of genealogy is in the midst of a controversial revolution.

“The previously staid world of genealogy is in the midst of a controversial revolution.

“The previously staid world of genealogy is in the midst of a controversial revolution. A handful of websites have turbocharged family trees with a collaborative, Wikipedia-like approach. You upload your family tree, and then you can merge your tree with another tree that has a cousin in common. After that, you merge and merge again. This creates vast webs with hundreds of thousands — or millions — of cousins by blood and marriage”.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/opinion/sunday/are-you-my-cousin.html?_r=0//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

This really all about the fight between Hammer and Elhaik

This really all about the fight between Hammer and Elhaik

This really all about the fight between Hammer and Elhaik. 

“We have shown that the University of Arizona study lacks any scientific merit,” Elhaik claimed.

But according to Hammer, “The paper by Elhaik and colleagues … does not present a convincing argument against our paper and unfortunately at times appears to display a lack of technical understanding of the subject area.”

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“In my view, the most plausible hypothesis is that these four Icelandic families derived from an Amerindian woman…

“In my view, the most plausible hypothesis is that these four Icelandic families derived from an Amerindian woman…

“In my view, the most plausible hypothesis is that these four Icelandic families derived from an Amerindian woman brought there at pre-Columbian times,” said researcher Carles Lalueza-Fox.

http://www.nativevillage.org/Archives/2010%20News%20Archives/DEC%202010%20NEWS/First%20American%20in%20Europe%20was%20Native%20Woman.htm//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js