The revolution in human genomics, still barely understood in the doctor’s office, is about to hit the street, at least for those able to pay about $1,000 for a glance at their entire genome.

The Icelandic company deCODE Genetics announced on Nov. 17, 2007 that it is now offering a service called deCODEme, which will assess a person’s genome for risk of common diseases, bodily traits like hair and eye color, and ancestral origins. Subscribers have to send in a scraping of cells from inside the cheek and a check for $985.

A little girl asked her father, "How did the human race appear?" The father answered, "God made Adam and Eve and they had children, and so was all mankind made."

Two days later, the girl asked her mother the same question. The mother answered, "Many years ago, there were monkeys from which the human race evolved."

The confused girl returned to her father and said, "Dad, how is it possible that you told me the human race was created by God, and Mama said they developed from monkeys?"

He is a French aristocrat who created a stir in America as a precocious teenager, and then returned decades later to the United States to be celebrated in New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Boston.

The Marquis de Lafayette? Yes, of course. But that was then. This time, it is his great-great-great grandson.

Publishers of history books could be in for a landslide of new business based on some sensational changes in reporting the past.

R. Vincent Enlow, a New Jersey resident, has put together some significant research in a powerful disclosure of perhaps the greatest deception of the American public.

Washington, DC -- Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein and Wayne Metcalfe, vice president of the Genealogical Society of Utah, announced Oct. 23, 2007, a five-year partnership agreement to digitize case files of approved pension applications of widows of Civil War Union soldiers from the National Archives.