I met my third cousin on Ancestry. Even though we share just 1% of our DNA, we used ChatGPT to connect the dots between generations. Here's how and what we learned.

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

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 ...

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 ...