Legal and People Research Spotlight - DNA Testing Services

We've hinted a few times in posts about some exciting services added to both our legal issues and find and investigate people sections. As a legal resource, these DNA testing services include paternity testing, relationship testing, and testing for criminal investigations. As a means of investigating people, DNA testing for parentage and genealogy can help you verify familial relationships, check and add links to your family tree, expand your genealogical research, and more. We feature DNA testing services via three web sites. DNA tests available from Test Country include home paternity tests, legal paternity tests, maternity tests, avuncular tests, siblinsgship tests, and twin zygosity tests. GeneTree DNA testing services include DNA testing for criminal investigations and several types paternity and relationship testing, including tests for court purposes. Their most popular tests include home paternity DNA tests, legal DNA paternity testing, twin zygosity DNA testing, ancestral origins DNA verification (especially Native American ancestry), and crime scene profiling. Genelex is offering a variety of genealogy-related DNA tests through their web site to help people learn about family geographical and tribal origins as well as to verify links in family trees. All of the services we feature make purchasing and testing a much simpler process than you might expect. To learn more about DNA and genealogy, try some of the books in the DNA and genealogy section of our Genealogy Guide Books Shop special feature. To learn more about DNA testing services, visit the legal issues or find and investigate people sections.

Travel Spotlight - Car / Vehicle Rentals - More Options

Our travel section has typically featured a handful of car rental sites in the car and vehicle rentals section, partly because travel sites offered very similar services at very similar rental car rates. We added new types of services as the Internet offered them. Now, gladly have been able to expand the car / vehicle rentals section. You'll find options for classic rental car reservations, innovative booking options that help you save money by reserving excess inventory, all types of limousine and chauffeur services, airport transit options and arrangements, international vehicle rental specialists, and even RV rentals! As was described in the previous post, simultaneous searching options are becoming increasingly available for travel sites, and we also feature two such meta-searches for rental car reservations! Click here to visit the car and vehicle rentals section and see all of the new options our directory has to offer.

Travel Spotlight - Air Travel - Simultaneous Searching

As part of the update of our travel section, we have added several important resources to our air travel sites directory. Perhaps the most useful of these are airfare meta-search services from Cheapflights, Kayak, Qixo, and Travelgrove. They allow you to search several travel sites at once for flight tickets, select the best match for your travel preferences and budget, and book your flights online easily. They truly help us fulfill our mission of helping you find the information you need. Click here to visit our air travel section and find the best available plane tickets with simultaneous searching.

Job Search Spotlight - Resume Assistance Services

Our job search tips and resources section now features a wide variety of quality resume assistance services. Obviously, a good resume is just as important as finding a lead on a good job. Therefore, we worked to provide resources for every resume-related need--including full-service custom resume preparation services, do-it-yourself resume templates and software, resume critiques, flash resumes, cover letter assistance, and more. Click here to visit our job search tips and resources section and learn more about resume assistance services. Optimize your resume and land a better job!

Insurance Spotlight - Travel Insurance

The insurance section continues to grow as we locate more and more options to comparison shop for insurance online. It seems that many businesses are catching on to the idea that people want to make informed decisions and get the best prices and best matches for all types of insurance.

For a quite some time, however, there had been limited options to comparison shop for travel insurance--even though travelers increasingly are realizing the value of this type of insurance coverage. Now, Do The Research proudly features multi-insurer travel insurance comparison shopping with three travel insurance sites -- InsureMyTrip, QuoteWright, and SquareMouth -- in both our insurance section and the travel insurance section of our travel site. Search for, find information about, and buy you choice of more than a hundred travel insurance plans, including ones from all of the major companies. Policy options include comprehensive travel insurance plans, business packages, travel medical policies, trip cancellation insurance, and more. Now, you're sure to find well-matched travel insurance plans, make an informed decision about your travel insurance needs, and purchase your policy easily. For more information, visit our insurance section or the travel insurance section of our travel site.

Complete Travel - Completely Updated (almost)

Our travel section once was a little feature supporting the original motto, "relax, we'll do the research for you." It grew and grew and became very popular. We called it "complete travel" because it had everything travel-related, from travel planning to reservations to items to help people remember their trips. It even won awards and was featured in The New York Times.

Although there still are a few sections left to work on (including the extensive travel necessities and luxuries shop), it is time to announce that Travel at Do The Research has just been updated! Find everything you need to make travel arrangements--including information about and reservations for air travel, car / vehicle rentals, rail travel, land travel, vacations and cruises, hotels and places to stay, activities and events, travel insurance, passports and visas, and more. Plan for travel with items from our travel books and guidebooks shop, travel videos and DVDs shop, travel magazines shop, featured online travel articles and guides, currency converters, world time converters, maps and atlases, and more. Find and buy a wide range of other travel necessities, such as luggage, GPS (global positioning systems), items for air travel comfort and safety, items for land travel comfort and convenience, cameras and camcorders, and much more. We'll even help you remember, dream, or brag (even if you've never been somewhere) with items from our globes shop, travel scenes art and posters shop, international art and crafts shop, and free virtual travel postcards. For fun, enter our featured travel-related sweepstakes.

See, we really do have everything you need to plan and make all of your travel arrangements, take your trip, and remember travel! Click here to visit the travel section and see for yourself. Also, stay tuned for more travel-related posts, as we share our favorites from all of these travel features.

Health Help Spotlight - A Wealth of Health Help Resources

In a previous post, it was mentioned that the health help resources section was up and running and growing. It now has a very wide range of health-related resources. The directory can help you find and buy products for respiratory health (including allergy and asthma products), back health, diabetes management, eye health (including contact lenses and eyeglasses), pet health, quitting smoking, safer sex, mobility (including wheelchairs), weight management, fitness, health and medical testing, pet health, and more. If you're looking for vitamins and supplements, or affordable prescription medicines, we can help you find them, too. We also have information to help you comparison shop for health insurance and dental plans, find and research medical services providers, and obtain medical information. Clearly, health issues are complex and varied. Therefore, we're still working to include even more health help resources. We'll also feature some of the more interesting resources in upcoming posts. Until then, click here to explore our health help resources section.