CLEVELAND, Ohio -- California investigators in April announced a stunning breakthrough in a decades-old cold case: They used DNA from the "Golden State Killer" and an ancestry website to identify a ...

But they had blood and DNA from the crime scene. And that turned out to be the key evidence. For the first time ever in Georgia, police used an ancestry site to match DNA and arrest a suspect.

WASHINGTON – For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers’ ...

In the last week, police have arrested two suspects in unrelated cold cases thanks to data gleaned from open-source ancestry site GEDMatch. GEDMatch contains around a million genetic profiles that ...

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The genealogy Web site Ancestry.com is making millions of U.S. military records available online through June 6, the anniversary of D-Day in Europe. The free access allows people to search through ...

Popular DNA research company 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. If you sent in your saliva to learn about your ancestry or health, you may want to delete that data soon before it ...

In 2019, the genealogy company Ancestry said that 10 million of their 15 million members had at least some Irish heritage, ranging from 100 percent to 5 percent. These numbers were confirmed by a ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A Michigan man recently identified as the newborn boy snatched from his mother in 1964 by someone posing as a maternity-ward nurse was found through commercial ancestry websites after ...

But they had blood and DNA from the crime scene. And that turned out to be the key evidence. For the first time ever in Georgia, police used an ancestry site to match DNA and arrest a suspect. Smith ...