Online Genealogy Checks DNA

Jun 18, 10:57 PM

Current Headlines: By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - For less than $200 and a cheek-swiped cotton swab, amateur historians soon will be able to add DNA results to family tree Web sites.

The rapidly growing field of online genealogical searches is expanding to genetic testing, courtesy of a new partnership between the Internet's largest family history Web site, Ancestry .com, and Sorenson Genomics, a privately held DNA research firm.

Ancestry.com plans to launch the DNA testing product by the end of summer, offering customers the possibility of finding DNA matches in the site's 24,000 genealogical databases.

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