A genetic test meant to introduce you to a lost cousin could also introduce info on your entire lineage to a stranger seeking profit.

Investigators are hopeful that some of the DNA that was found at Guthrie's home can be parsed and help point to a suspect in ...

Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing from her home in the Tucson, Arizona, area on Feb. 1. She was last seen the night ...

Volunteer investigative genetic genealogist Wendy Watson explains why police can’t upload crime scene DNA to Ancestry or 23andMe databases as Guthrie search continues third week.

Sewell-Smith credits her time as a journalist for her love of digging and searching for answers to burning questions, and said it goes hand in hand with genealogy.

America is approaching its 250th anniversary, and Ancestry is marking the milestone by telling 250 different family stories — a way to reflect the complexity of how the country was built, the company ...

Sean McCowan carries the burden on his wrist. The number of days — 14,219 — etched in silver on a bracelet. A constant reminder of the agonizing, 39-year wait between the December 1983 murder of his ...

The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records. By Corey Kilgannon Since online genealogy ...

Modern humans inherited part of their ancestry from multiple, genetically distinct Denisovan groups through interbreeding events. However, the history of contact with Denisovans remains unclear. By ...

NEW YORK, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Blackstone (BX.N), opens new tab is weighing strategic options, including an initial public offering or a sale, for Ancestry.com, the hugely popular platform that helps ...

Ancestry, the Utah-based genealogy giant that helps people trace their family history, has acquired iMemories, a photo and digitization company headquartered in Scottsdale. Ancestry on July 30 ...

More than three decades ago, a pair of hikers discovered the mummified body of a prehistoric man on an Alpine pass along the border of Italy and Austria. Archaeologists have been obsessed ever since.