In a hillside cemetery in southern Italy, the bones of a small Bronze Age community have yielded a secret that their stone graves never hinted at. Ancient DNA pulled from those remains has exposed a ...

The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records. By Corey Kilgannon Since online genealogy ...

NEW YORK, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Blackstone (BX.N), opens new tab is weighing strategic options, including an initial public offering or a sale, for Ancestry.com, the hugely popular platform that helps ...

DNA testing web site Ancestry has begun legal action to access millions of family records held by National Records of Scotland (NRS). The Scottish government body has refused to enter into a financial ...

Ancestry has acquired the home-movies-and-photos digitizer service iMemories, a bet by the genealogy company that subscribers who spend their money on DNA kits and pour their time into building family ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and Instituto Aggeu Magalhães, have for the first time linked the extreme variability in severity of the ...

"The registrant is attempting to capitalize on the valuable goodwill of Ancestry for its own commercial gain," counsel for Ancestry.com allege in a lawsuit accusing a rival domain of unauthorized ...

Ancestry.com, the giant genealogy and DNA website, has routed more than a billion dollars in dividends through its Irish arm in the last two years, newly published accounts show. The accounts for ...

We list the best genealogy tools, to make it simple and easy to research your family history and trace the roots of your family tree. Finding your roots used to be such a taxing process. If were ...

A June 13 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a woman navigating through the Ancestry.com website to a death notice for Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. with the same birthdate as President Joe ...

Although Ancestry.com did have a page stating a Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. died in Guantánamo, Cuba, in 2018, a site disclaimer stated anyone can upload information to the database. Therefore, some ...

Ancestry.com is using artificial intelligence (AI) to help Black Americans trace their family trees. The genealogy company has released a new collection of searchable newspaper articles containing ...