Genealogy News - January 2009
Below are genealogy news stories from January 2009. Click on the links for the full articles.
Migration across South Pacific Started from Taiwan - Scientists have come up with a new theory on how people originally populated the South Pacific, the region roughly defined from Taiwan to New Zealand to Hawaii...[More]
Genetic Testing of Galileo’s Eyes? - Genetic testing has been a great boon to genealogists who want to trace their family history. Now Italian and British scientists want to use it to potentially rewrite history...[More]
Old Manuscripts Dated by Genetic Testing - Genealogists fortunate enough to have very old books or manuscripts in their possession will be happy to know that a new technique is being developed to determine the age of ancient documents...[More]
First Native Americans Arrived in Two Separate Migrations - An international group of genetic researchers from the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation in Salt Lake City, Utah working with scientists from the University of Pavia in Italy have released a study that questions the traditional view of how the Americas were originally populated...[More]
Waterford Wedgwood Goes Bankrupt - Many genealogists are familiar with Waterford Wedgwood, the maker of fine crystal and luxury ceramics...[More]