Learn the basics of using Ancestry.com, including starting your own tree, taking advantage of the library’s subscription to Ancestry’s worldwide databases and employing search strategies to get the ...

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 ...

Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson has raised eyebrows for making a surprising remark about her ancestry. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, the 57-year-old stated in a new beauty video ...

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 ...

Learn how your family ancestry is connected to the human origin journey with National Geographic’s Geno DNA Ancestry Test. The information tucked away in the branching lines of family trees can help ...

The Y chromosome retains a remarkable record of human ancestry, passed directly from father to son. In an article in Genome Research, scientists have utilized recently described genetic variations on ...

Shoebox, the mobile photo archiving app Ancestry.com acquired from San Francisco-based 1000memories last fall, has now gone live at its new home. The updated version of the app, Shoebox 3.0, still ...

I hit a roadblock in my online research. It wasn't till I traveled to Germany that the clues started to fall into place. Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, overseeing a team covering ...