It has been found that your pre-historical ancestry is buried in your DNA. Even the leading anthropologists have resorted to DNA to learn about the past by studying the DNA from people around the world. Now you can order the same DNA tests and embark on your own personal expedition of genetic discovery.

The reports that come with your DNA tests can also tell you about you as an individual. Your Common Male Ancestor Test (CMAT) and Common Female Ancestor Test (CFAT) will include a summary of what scientists have learned about your geographical origin and the age of your maternal and paternal lines based on your DNA test results.

With the help of these results you can also know you what percentage of your DNA is shared with Africans, Europeans, Asians or Native Americans. That will give you a new angle to explore.

On the other hand, DNA testing also has its limitations. A genetic marker can strongly suggest you an origin, but is cannot be treated as 100% proof because no markers have been found so far, that exist exclusively in a single group.

By and large, DNA has come up as a tool for searching your lineage. So, go ahead and search your ancestry. Best of luck!!

Almost two years ago, a less-known on-line catalog of genealogy websites became available to you. This site is called Linkpendium and can be found at www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/.

Linkpendium has links to more than 2 million genealogy websites. Presently the site can only be searched by surname or by state. Linkpendium will guide you efficiently, if your research is at the state or country level.

The site provides links to local libraries, historical societies, online cemetery records, vital statistical information, and many other indexes and databases. So it is a very useful site for you if you are in search of your ancestor or lineage.

So, what are you waiting for? Go and check it out!

Though with the help of on-line databases you can get a lot of genealogical information, you can not turn your back to the Ancestors magazine. It has proved to be a rich source of genealogical information.

I always get something useful for my search in the New England On-line column by David Allen Lambert. So don't overlook it. You can get some requisite information in Ancestors magazine that will help you with your genealogical research.

For example, I once found that the microfilm records for the period 1866-1934 are available at the National Archives branch in Waltham, Mass. This was exactly what I had needed.

I could rent the microfilm through the Family History Centers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, such as the center on Grandview Avenue and Essex Street in Bangor.

See, how useful it was to check out the magazine's issues. I would advice you not to overlook any of its issues as it is an excellent magazine.

Don't ask me how wonderful it is to find something about you ancestors. I am a real genealogy buff. And I leave no stone unturned while I search my genealogy. If you are also in the same boat, I can tell you how to satisfy your curiosity.

Visit the website GenealogyBuff.com. It is a free genealogy search site. It will help you to continue your search at ease. It will provide you a means to gather a large amount of data for a particular surname so that you can build your family tree very quickly and easily.

You can scan hundreds of data sources using the surname tool, including, county deaths, state and federal census records, obituaries and the like.

I found the site to be really useful. In fact, finding an elusive piece of information on the site gives me immeasurable satisfaction. I give this site an 8 out of 10 and would recommend it highly.

Don't go any where to search your genealogy. The Family History Centers, branches of Family History Library, are now open to help you search your genealogy. This center is located in Salt Lake City.

The center's collection of genealogical records is awesome. It has more than 2 million microfilms and hundreds of thousands of books. The library helps you in finding vital records, wills, land records, probate records, cemetery records, family histories, newspapers, obituaries, and military records for every state and for most foreign countries. Don't worry even if you are just an amateur genealogist, you will be able to locate the requisite information with little help.

Its huge collection on genealogy has already lured a lot of people to visit it. Are you the next one?

To identify genealogy you can not go for a DNA fingerprinting technology. It is against the Islamic Sharia Law and will cause disintegration of many families.

In this very connection, the Dean of the Faculty of Sharia and Islamic Studies at Kuwait University, Dr Mohammed Al-Tabtabaei said, “Islam does not allow the use of DNA fingerprinting to prove genealogy and no family can reject any of its members based on the results of such tests.”

He further added that Islam does not allow linking the crimes of fathers to sons as each of them is accountable for his own actions, “Although security departments can use DNA fingerprinting for issues related to national security, this technology should not be used as a tool to identify the family tree of anybody,” he said.

So you can see, in Islam, it is prohibited to know your family tree. To me, it sounds ridiculous. I feel, the result of DNA test would unearth the long hidden reality of their life. And as they are well aware of this fact that the truth of their life is not what they claim to be. Otherwise it would have been permissible.

Is it an uphill task for you to wade through all the records to find out your ancestors? And did you experience frustration levels so high that you were on the verge of resignation? Then don't worry any longer.

Because gone are the days when finding your ancestors was nothing short of a grueling experience. The Family History Center of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 100 Western Hills Loop has come to your salvation. It has many volunteers to help you  research your ancestors and genealogy. It gives you a free software, with the help of which, you can compile information into your personal computers, family group sheets and/or pedigree charts.

You can visit the center from 9am to noon on Tuesdays and from 9am to 4pm on Wednesdays. You can visit the center on Thursdays and Saturdays only by appointments. For further inquiry, call at 425-7744, the number of the center.

The efforts of the Church to offer courses in introduction to genealogy is worth praising. The Ventura Family History Center, California, US, offers you a set of family history research classes which are conducted over four Fridays beginning from May 5, 2006 through May 26, 2006.

The popular introductory course is free for you and it will run from 10a.m. to noon at the Ventura Family History Center at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Ventura Stake Center, 3501 Loma Vista Road, Ventura, California, US.

Experienced family history researchers would guide you through the course. They will guide you through the process of beginning a family history research, using the Internet for genealogical research; verifying records; and through the Personal Ancestral File.

Another added advantage of the center is that it is a volunteer-based facility that provides access to the Family History Library system. It has the world's largest collection of genealogical records, including the names of more than 2 billion deceased people.

You can call 643-5607 to reserve a seat. I am sure you will not regret your decision.

There is some happy news for those, who live in Keosauqua and are interested in genealogy.

An anonymous donor has donated a complete set of approximately 125 CDs of Pedigree Resource Files. This set of CDs is the most complete record of genealogical material available. The records collected in these CDs have been submitted by families, CD users and government archives.

Larry White, director, Keosauqua library says that the same donor had previously donated a one-year subscription to ancestry.com to the library.

Lets thank this anonymous donor together, as his/her donation has provided us with a useful tool to research our genealogy.