Thanks to ancestry kits, two families in California learned they have a distant ancestor whose identity has never been found.

Kentucky law enforcement agencies are increasingly using forensic genealogy to identify crime victims and suspects.

Ancestry.com is using artificial intelligence (AI) to help BlackAmericans trace their family trees. The genealogy company has released a new collection of searchable newspaper articles containing ...

This example illustrates the fact that a phylogeny is, at its most basic level, a history of descent from common ancestry. Phylogenetic trees are fractal in the sense that the same pattern is ...

Ancestry predicted that we were "half 2nd cousin 1x removed," but the shared DNA quantity doesn't necessarily place the relationship on a family tree. It just tells you how many jumps away one ...

After all, looking at genealogy isn't something one has to do, like paying for car repairs. People do it because they want to. Still, if you're looking for ways to research your family tree and ...

Interested in researching your family tree? Genealogist Molly Schweinfurter can help. The Redwood Falls native will teach a Beginner’s Genealogy Workshop at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 28, at the ...

When my husband and I decided to set our roots in the city of Carver, little did we know that my roots began here much earlier. After some conversations with my father and a little excursion to a ...

Forensic genealogy uses DNA evidence to build family trees and identify victims or suspects through their relatives. The technique has been gaining popularity since it was used to identify the ...