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Project News

Fri 09 Nov 2012 23:53

New Family Group - Group 14

There is a new family group in the Pritchard DNA Project! These are part of the MA Prichards who came to the new world very early, the 1600's. Here is the base paternal...
Sun 19 Feb 2012 23:53

New Family Group - Group 13

Exciting news and we now have a new Family Group in the project, Group 13. Both testers are from the UK and used Genetic Genealogy to prove their paternal relationship...
Sat 11 Feb 2012 23:53

New Project Success Story

The Pritchard - Pritchett - Prickett DNA Project has a section on the website for DNA Success Stories! It is located under the "Our Community" tab. The first one is a...
Sat 07 Jan 2012 23:53

New Matches and Chart Updated

The yResults chart has been updated. There are two new members of Family Group 7, one who tested with Ancestry.com. The puzzle is being unraveled by Sid Pickett who has...
Sun 20 Nov 2011 23:53

FTDA Sale - End of 2011

FTDNA is having a sale! Perfect time to order a test and join the project. Or you can upgrade your current test. Here is the email FTDNA sent to all the volunteer...
Fri 06 Jun 2014 21:29

Ancestry.com is Discontinuing Y-DNA

All, administrators have received the following email from FTDNA. Yes, Ancestry.com is closing down their Y-DNA data and destroying data samples. Ancestry.com announced...