The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the ...

The Jomon people—who eventually settled in what is now Japan—share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan ...

I am 67 and was adopted as a child. Last year I found my birth father after using a DNA test kit from Ancestry.co.uk, which ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

Recent archaeological findings in the Sahara Desert have unveiled a tantalizing glimpse into a long-lost lineage of ancient ...

"Long story short, after learning this news, he decided to reach out to his biological father, who turned out to be a local ...

If your estate plan was created before the DNA testing era—or hasn't been updated to account for these new realities—now is ...

Ancestry DNA is designed to offer users more information on their ancestral roots, with a combination of advanced technology and the world's largest online family history resource. Without even ...

Paul B. Allen was there during the early days of Ancestry.com, when he helped launch a company to popularize family history research, and do it on a newfangled platform — the Internet. Since the 1990s ...