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Budweiser Traces Your Family Tree To Roots In Africa

Hold onto your spuds, folks! There’s a new name in genetic genealogy: BUDWEISER!

That’s right! This February – to celebrate Black History Month – Anheuser-Busch will be giving one lucky person a genealogy dream-come-true: the chance to discover his/her family’s origins and to travel to that destination to climb the family tree.

The sweepstakes, “Discover Your History,” provides a grand prize that includes a trip for the winner and three guests to explore their ancestral background as determined via genetic testing. The journey includes round-trip air transportation and two double-occupancy hotel rooms for up to nine nights and a completed family tree. Nine First Prizes also will be awarded and consist of genetic genealogy testing and ancestral family tree research. Official sweepstakes rules, instructions and an online registration form can be obtained at http://www.budweiser.com/.

Also during February, the suds company is partnering with radio host Michael Baisden to offer an additional 20 DNA tests provided by AfricanDNA.com. Listeners can call in to the show to answer questions about black history, and winners will be selected from those providing correct answers.

The contest will run from February 1 – 29, 2008, and winners will be selected in a random drawing in March. As you might guess, you must be at least 21 years of age to enter.

For more information, visit Anheuser-Busch.com.

For the record, I searched both the Budweiser and Michael Baisden web sites and could find nothing about this contest. In fact, I started to think it was a hoax until I found the press release on the Anheuser-Busch site. If you have better luck, please let me know, and I’ll post the link.

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Here's a little trip down memory lane to get you in the mood:

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