Jill Seldomridge and her family were spending an evening on the porch of their Pocahontas County home on Wednesday just watching the weather develop. They got way more than they expected.

Smithsonian magazine commissioned Drew Gardner for a project that connects Black Americans today to their lost ancestry. Read about Gardner’s project and process, as well as more details about the ...

Smithsonian magazine commissioned Drew Gardner for a project that connects Black Americans today to their lost ancestry. Read about Gardner’s project and process, as well as more details about the ...

The Hispanic Organization for Genealogy and Research is hosting the Somos Tejas conference at the Renaissance Dallas North Hotel Friday and Saturday. More than 200 genealogists, culture ...

Dolly Parton isn’t just Miley Cyrus’s godmother—as it turns out, the music icons are actually related! Ancestry.com revealed ...

However, one type of DNA work that’s relatively new, known as investigative genetic genealogy, is more complex and indirect, requiring police to conduct a kind of connect-the-dots among a pool ...

The proposals, though, have elicited logistical, legal and cultural objections — including from the descendants of the tower’s creator, French engineer Gustave Eiffel. The problem is not about ...

"I used to like detective stories," Taylor said. "That's what family history is. You having a little piece here and a little piece there." For some Black Americans, they are pieces of a picture ...

Photographer Mark Latia has chosen to forgive the Whittaker family after being lied to in a money-grabbing hoax - as social ...

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Unsurprisingly, it involves science and DNA. Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) was only added to the Ontario police investigation toolbox in 2019. DNA comparison has become a staple used to ...

Over 70 million people worldwide claim to have a link to Ireland through their ancestry. It's incredible ... searching out information on their family name. Sometimes all you have to start with ...