The resulting investigation led to the 67-year-old stepfather being arrested and charged with a series of sex crimes, the ...

A man was arrested after police said an ancestry test linked him to a rape case dating back more than three decades ago.

University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as ...

Continuing her exploration of family heritage, the artist’s latest body of work draws on both her ancestry and the fraught ...

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Two long-lost sisters have finally met for the first time ever in Roanoke. They’ve been separated by hundreds of miles for ...

Popular DNA research company 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Users may want to scrub their data from ...

Former MLC and grandson of Maharaja Hari Singh, Vikramaditya Singh, reaffirmed the deep-rooted ancestral connection between ...

Have you ever flipped through old family photos and wondered at the stories behind them? Maybe they’ve been passed down and down, touched by generations that became increasingly far removed from them ...

Ancestry.com Inc. and 23andMe Holding Co. have reshuffled their in-house legal ranks at a critical time for both DNA testing ...

One of the biggest names among online ancestry and DNA testing has reportedly filed for bankruptcy after once being valued at ...

In The Trouble of Color, Johns Hopkins History Professor Martha Jones explores racial identity by digging into her own family ...