Genealogy - South America
Below are genealogy and family history news stories related to South America. Click on the links for the full articles.
Native Americans Have a Common Ancestry - New genetic data suggests that Native Americans from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska across to Greenland and down to the southern tip of Chile all share a common ancestry...[More]
First European Explorers to America May Have Included Africans- History books suggest the first Africans arrived in the Americas with the slave trade, which began soon after the Virginia Colony was founded in 1607. However, a new study suggests the first Africans may have arrived in the New World over one hundred years earlier than previously thought...[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]
