But I also researched my paternal ancestors, hoping to find that my father had exaggerated our ancestors’ involvement in slavery. I guess at some level I hoped to find that I didn’t come from ...

Written in the letters of DNA, it carries a record of a man's paternal ancestors. Here is your chance to try your hand at being a geneticist and solve a genealogical puzzle using your power of ...

According to the Daily Mail, recent findings reveal that Swift is a descendant of none other than French King Louis XIV.

As a Covid project, I cleaned out our attic, wrote about it, then published a related book in 2022. Ever since, I’ve given ...

which only shows your female ancestors, or a Y-chromosomal DNA (Y-DNA) test, which only shows your paternal ancestors. Looking at thousands of your unique DNA markers, or single nucleotide ...

In this article, we take a look at 7 best sites like Ancestry.com to research your family history. If you would like to skip ...

"You dirty Jew!" Those were the last words my paternal great-grandfather would hear as he was shoved down an elevator shaft at Henington Hall on the Lower Eastside of Manhattan in the early 1900s ...

Katrina Schaffner, a Democrat running in the 5th Congressional District, charged that Biggs is playing politics with Ukraine.

Genealogist and member of, Patricia Brennan, explores Ché Guevara's Irish roots and connection to County Galway.

On Tuesday's episode of "Finding Your Roots," the "Fatal Attraction" and "Basic Instinct" actor traces his paternal roots back ... of the Douglases' Jewish ancestry — ancestors who suffered ...

Will Justify, a newly-minted Hall of Famer, become only the fourth Triple Crown champion to sire a Derby winner?

In episode four, actor and director Wayne Blair uncovers the little-known story of his Woppaburra ancestors from Queensland’s Keppel Islands and discovers an extraordinary twist in his paternal ...