FamilySearch has invited Americans to learn more about their family history and their ancestors who helped build the nation, as well as to record their own story for generations to come.

Start with yourself and work backwards in time. Note the information you already know. Add your parents’ details, like their dates and places of birth and marriage. Keep working back, one generation ...

Billionaires have proven a popular punching bag in entertainment in recent years, from movies like HBO Max's dark comedy "Mountainhead" to apocalypse-themed billionaires-in-a-bunker series like Hulu's ...

A study has raised concerns that a type of genetic database that is increasingly popular with researchers could be exploited to reveal the identities of its participants, or link private health ...

Abstract: Genealogy is one of the three kinds of historical literatures which are valuable to historical research and humanities research. However, traditionally, it is hard to build and revise a ...

Nearly two-thirds of GEDmatch’s users opt out of helping law enforcement. For a brief window this month, that didn’t matter. By Heather Murphy The peculiar matches began early on a Sunday morning.

Consumer genomics databases have reached the scale of millions of individuals. Recently, law enforcement authorities have exploited some of these databases to identify suspects via distant familial ...

Last week’s arrest of a suspect in the Golden State Killer case in California has highlighted how DNA samples that have been volunteered for one purpose — in this case, genealogy — can be used for ...