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The New Ancestry.com Homepage (About.com)
Members of the subscription genealogy Web site Ancestry.com are being greeted with a brand-new homepage when they log in for the first time since the change launched last week. According...
Leading Jewish state school is cleared in race bias case (Times Online)
A leading Jewish state school was cleared yesterday of racially discriminating against the son of a convert in a ruling that shores up the whole faith school system.
Getting to the root of family trees (The Herald)
At first glance the black and white image of a 19th-century document recording the marriage of excise officer Alfred Blaker to footman's daughter Victoria Alberta McDonald looks unremarkable.
Expensive online DNA tests are 'no more accurate than horoscopes' (Daily Mail)
Expensive online DNA testing services which promise to unlock the secrets of your ancestors are a waste of money, a study by consumer group Which? has found.
Expensive online DNA tests are 'no more accurate than horoscopes' (Evening Standard)
Expensive online DNA testing services which promise to unlock the secrets of your ancestors are a waste of money, a study has found. And some offer sinister sidelines that include potentially alarming warnings about vulnerability to life-threatening illnesses, such as cancer.
Tunbridge Wells Council puts its deceased residents online (PublicTechnology.net)
Deceased Online has announced the launch of its new web site and national database for burial and cremation records, with Tunbridge Wells Borough Council being the first local authority in the UK to join up to open their records to the Internet.
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