Searching for your family history is an exercise in frustration. Depending on your country of origin and specific ancestry, your grandparents might be as far back as the paper trail goes. If you throw ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on genealogy, record-keeping and notions of relation. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I have taken over keeping my family tree. I am fortunate that this tree dates to the ...

In 2017, I sent DNA samples to Ancestry, as well as to two other DNA companies. My parents had recently passed away, and I had some questions about my family background that I hoped the DNA might ...

For my entire life, I've always known that a certain family member of mine (okay fine, my grandad) had a... shady past. And like all older folk from the east end of London, stories of him rubbing ...

Commercials abound for DNA testing services that will help you learn where your ancestors came from or connect you with relatives. I’ve been interested in my family history for a long time. I knew ...

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Growing up Indigenous and not knowing your culture leaves a hole in your identity. My mum describes it as a puzzle — and we were searching for the missing pieces. Like many other families, mine ...