We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

Sewell-Smith credits her time as a journalist for her love of digging and searching for answers to burning questions, and ...

As ancestry companies expand their databases and grow, testing one's DNA and unlocking the past has become relatively quick and easy to do. So, what's the process for sending in DNA for an ancestry ...

ANN ARBOR—University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as tracing your ancestry, modeling disease spread and studying how ...

DNA tests are a great way to jumpstart tracing your family history, which can typically be a challenging and time-consuming process. Companies like Ancestry, 23andMe and National Geographic aim to ...

Make genograms of relationships or medical history–as well as regular family trees–with GenoPro. Tracing can be like a forensics procedural, only with fewer neat answers. There are many reasons for ...

Commercials abound for DNA testing services that will help you learn where your ancestors came from or connect you with relatives. I’ve been interested in my family history for a long time. I knew ...

Yan Wong works at the Big Data Institute at Oxford University, in which this research largely took place. Anthony Wilder Wohns received funding from the Rhodes Trust. Did you know that it’s now ...