When Linda Ketchum of Glendale, Calif., asked her husband for an AncestryDNA kit for Christmas, it was just a lark. She had no family secrets she was trying to uncover, no genealogy mysteries that ...
LOWELL — I’ve been interested in learning more about my ancestry for a long time. When National Geographic first launched its Genographic Project in 2005, I was excited to have a chance to delve deep ...
I’ve long been intrigued by genealogy, though it’s always felt like a giant, time-consuming undertaking to attempt to construct a complete family tree that goes beyond my great grandparents. But a few ...
A few years ago, I spat into a plastic tube, hoping to learn more about my ancestry. I didn't expect it would lead to me becoming a citizen of New Zealand. But I am just one of more than 40 million ...
In the bathroom of a Brooklyn, N.Y., bar over the weekend, a black woman stopped me and said, “Oh my, I love your hair! What are you mixed with?” It’s not the first time I’ve been asked that, but I ...
Grenada’s Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell traces his maternal DNA to Ghana’s Akan people, calling his state visit to Accra a ...
Ancestry DNA confirmed my true home is in Co. Galway. Ed Sheeran’s “Galway Girl” may make me cringe, while the original song of the same name from Mundy and Sharon Shannon has me ducking for cover, ...
For the past few years, experts have criticized — and defended — the use of race in calculating an important number for people with kidney disease: the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). As ...
We are adopted children of God. What can that mean? Let me tell you first about a little apple tree I planted. One year, before it could even blossom, caterpillars came and devoured every leaf. I did ...