Joseph Hall has an article, History is in your genes, about the Genographic Project - the ambitious 5-year plan to use DNA and map out global migration patterns, that is being sponsored/handled by National Geographic and IBM.

Paula Story has a story (hah!) in the Union-Tribune (San Diego), Knowing your relatives’ medical history can help you identify health risks and develop a personalized prevention program, that gets into an area that some don’t want to confront or think about, or that, on the flip side, actually got some peole into genealogy and their family history.

Over at Sci-Tech Today, there is an interesting article from the Associated Press, Colonial Skeleton Stumps Archaeologists, about trying to identify remains from Colonial America in the 1600s. I’ve read another article in a magazine that mentioned some genealogy work that was done in England to find his sister (as you’ll see, they thought they had found her, and took DNA samples, however they turned out to be wrong.

Art Matori has an article in the East Valley Tribune (Arizona), Florence man finds genealogy has medical value, that gets into an area of genealogy that may make some uncomfortable, but it has also introduced many people to genealogy.

According to TODAYonline (Singapore), reaching 100 years old may become the norm in some nations:

They go on to talk about it may widen the gap between nations, but I just want to look at it from the point of view of genealogy - I’m not sure how it would change things, but I know it would make them very interesting. Could you imagine if this had been case within the past 60 years, and how much it would have changed your genealogy research?

Something to ponder.

TIME Magazine is carrying an article by Michael D. Lemonick, that covers genetic genealogy research, an area that continues to grow as more people do DNA genealogy research and as more people become interested in their medical genealogy. This is another high profile story, the second or third in the past few weeks (although the others were more concerned with regular genealogy or DNA tracking alone).

Pam Mellskog writes about the value of genealogy not only in regards to knowing where one came from, but knowing what illnesses might run in a family in Probing your genealogical past, an article for the Daily Times-Call/Longmont FYI (CO). We’ve mentioned similar stories in the past, and the US Surgeon General’s Family History Initiative can be found here.

KUTV (Salt Lake City) has an article, Genealogy & Health, that mentions the holidays as being a good time to cover your family’s health history, and discussing potential problems before they become serious problems.