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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Brian Donnelly is a chief commercial officer at Ancestry. Donnelly says he starts each day by conquering his mind with a 5 a.m. cold plunge. He sets up his whole day to play to his genetic and ...

Grenada’s Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell traces his maternal DNA to Ghana’s Akan people, calling his state visit to Accra a ...

I didn’t know much about my Dutch ancestry when I was growing up in New York’s Hudson Valley in the 1960s and ’70s. I thought of myself as Italian. My father was the second son of an immigrant named ...

Throughout her career, Elaine Welteroth has consistently carved out her own path to unprecedented success. A widely known and respected trailblazer, Welteroth has redefined what it means to break ...