A few years ago, I set out on my journey to learn if there were any Patriots in my family tree.

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on genealogy, record-keeping and notions of relation. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I have taken over keeping my family tree. I am fortunate that this tree dates to the ...

In 2017, I sent DNA samples to Ancestry, as well as to two other DNA companies. My parents had recently passed away, and I had some questions about my family background that I hoped the DNA might ...

For my entire life, I've always known that a certain family member of mine (okay fine, my grandad) had a... shady past. And like all older folk from the east end of London, stories of him rubbing ...

Have you always wanted to research your Irish family history but you're not sure where to start? This guide will help you take the first step. Every family has a unique story to tell and building your ...

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 ...

When Ancestry DNA reached out to Unbothered offering the opportunity to gain insight into our ethnicities and genealogy, I jumped at the chance without much deliberation (despite the privacy risks of ...

Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still portrait by tracing where your ancestors moved across the globe over time. The statistical method can also be used ...