A St. Louis man who spent decades wondering about his biological roots was recently reunited with his birth parents—and discovered his father is a five-time Grammy Award winner

For adoptees and Late Discovery Adoptees, DNA testing can offer biological connection, family context, and emotional questions that deserve support.

A 26-year-old former car salesman was officially recognized as a Prince of Belgium after a DNA test confirmed royal paternity.

By Anand Subramanian funtimes.com For descendants of the transatlantic slave trade, the desire to know exactly where we come from is a profound ache. We grow up knowing our history was brutally…

Among Jews, tracing ancestry is a voyage of discovery. Many Jews of European background grew up believing that their relatives on both sides of their families had been murdered during the Holocaust

The families of two men who discovered through DNA tests that they were switched at birth 38 years ago are accusing a North Dakota hospital of robbing them of the...

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Discover how 23andMe Premium uses advanced Family Phasing to split your ancestry by parent, even if your parents haven't taken a DNA test.

Spokeo reports that DNA testing is transforming family discovery, with 25% of Americans finding unknown relatives, leading to complex emotional dynamics.

Five years in, DNA Academy remains ECGGC's most talked-about tradition. We sat down with host Mags Gaulden to find out why.

Big News at FamilyTreeWebinars.com: Introducing Learning Paths! A major new tool to help you navigate 2,700+ genealogy webinars—whether you explore our 100+ pre-created paths or build your own custom…

Adriana Turk, 74, believed she was the last person left alive in her family before a DNA test reunited her with dozens of family members across the world

FamilyTreeDNA has moved Family Finder to next-generation sequencing. Here's what's new, what it means for your results, and how to upgrade.

Your father inherited it from his father, who inherited it from his father, stretching back in an unbroken chain all the way back through history. Your

The new GEDmatch is here to see. Product Manager Tom Osypian walks through the completely rebuilt GEDmatch interface — the first full public preview outside a brief demo at RootsTech — and it's the…

How DNA testing can help adoptees and others in finding long lost family

The autosomal unlock for transferred (uploaded) DNA files at FamilyTreeDNA is being discontinued (retired) on August 18th. In a nutshell, this means that if you uploaded or transferred a test from …

This conversation between Sarah Stoddard and Richard Hill provides a fascinating deep dive into the emotional and technical evolution of genetic genealogy. Finding secrets through DNA and genetic…

BROOKFIELD − Joseph Laedtke, 43, grew up believ­ing he was an only child. So did his mother, Mary Ellen Luke­zich. Then Laedtke began receiv­ing emails from Ances­try DNA and 23andMe, inform­ing...

There are lots of new family tree tools available online. Here I look at some of these tools and at web development in genealogy.

Natasha, Gemma and Helen say finding each other has been a "fairy tale".

She first became suspicious when her son didn't have blue eyes.

My five brothers, three sisters and I celebrated our Irish heritage. Until we took a DNA test and learned something about the man who raised us.

“578 Ganeung 3-dong, Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province. 3-tong, 2-ban,” she said in Korean. Meeky Woo Flippen, now 60, still has that address etched int...

For adoptees and Late Discovery Adoptees, DNA testing can offer biological connection, family context, and emotional questions that deserve support.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. explains how the PBS series navigates shocking ancestry revelations, guest privacy and the truths that can forever alter a family story.

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How did researchers confirm Michael Jackson's paternal ancestry without his DNA? Sherman McRae explains the Big Y-700 test that revealed an unexpected French Huguenot connection.

An unexpected visit from his sister changed Ed's life forever. She came bearing news of a possible surprise child--a previously unknown genetic relative who showed up as a niece that no one knew. A…

After taking her company private, 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki opens up about the high-stakes decision to buy back the DNA-testing giant with her own capital. On The Circuit, she tells Emily Chang why…

MyHeritage launched Ancient Origins in February 2025 to enable MyHeritage DNA users to trace their origins back up to 10,000 years and explore the ancient

Astrophysicist Avi Loeb, professor of Harvard, dismissed as scientifically unlikely the theory that aliens known as Nórdicos could be identified

For the first time since he was an infant, Kyle Adler boarded a plane in February to meet his birth mother

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming genealogy by offering powerful capabilities alongside new challenges and risks. These principles aim to guide the responsible use of AI within the…