5 new features for Geneanet DNA’s second anniversary! Geneanet DNA celebrates two years online this month! Some great new features have appeared these past few weeks, and this anniversary is the ideal occasion... 2/9/22 5
Untold Story of Female Viking with Scottish Ancestry Brought to Life An Taistealaiche/The Far Traveller looks at the life of Gudridur Thorbjarnardottir, the granddaughter of a slave in Scotland. 10/7/20 0
Irish DNA Goes Back to Vikings as well as Niall of the Nine Hostages A group of residents in County Mayo just discovered that they not only have the blood of an ancient high king but a little Viking too, thanks to a National... 9/23/20 7
Sweden: Man Goes on Trial for 2004 Murder After DNA Matched to Genealogy Site A 37-year-old Swedish man has gone on trial for double murder after two killings that went unsolved for more than 15 years until police matched his DNA... 9/23/20 0
World’s Largest DNA Sequencing of Viking Skeletons Reveals They Weren’t All Scandinavian Invaders, pirates, warriors—the history books taught us that Vikings were brutal predators who travelled by sea from Scandinavia to pillage and raid... 9/23/20 1
Grandson of Warren G. Harding and Lover Wants President’s Body Exhumed The grandson of U.S. President Warren G. Harding and his lover, Nan Britton, went to court in an effort to get the Republican’s remains exhumed from... 9/23/20 1
DNA from an Ancient, Unidentified Ancestor Was Passed Down to Humans Living Today A new analysis of ancient genomes suggests that different branches of the human family tree interbred multiple times, and that some humans carry DNA from... 8/7/20 0
New Research Reveals the Transatlantic Slave Trade’s Genetic Legacy Scientists investigated whether genetic data collected from 50,000 volunteers lined up with historical shipping manifests. 7/29/20 0