Summary

A new genealogical study shows how genetic analyses threading together DNA across centuries can save stories of historical migration and ancestry from being eternally lost to time. The beginnings of this particular story are a familiar one: A group of intrepid colonists set out from England in the early 17th century to seek religious freedom in a land to eventually be known as the United States of America.

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