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 ...

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

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

Laura Dean Bennett Staff Writer For many years, residents and visitors alike have looked forward to the first weekend of October when a little old-fashioned festival – Huntersville Traditions Days – ...

“Nontraditional” families now outnumber “traditional” families in the United States. Throughout U.S. history, many presidents had blended families, but they tended not to talk about them.

Mrs Smith said the disappearance devastated her family, who lived in Perth at the time. "I suppose the family always hoped they would hear something further about it, that someone would hear or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stilettos, who recently won the Ellis Park Debutante, faces several talented fillies in the one-mile Pocahontas including fellow stakes winner Kimichi Cat. The fillies will head to post in Race 8 ...

Even after the kids go back to school, our list of the best family movies on Netflix right now will help you make the most of movie night. We’ve gone through the extensive library to narrow down ...