We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

Sewell-Smith credits her time as a journalist for her love of digging and searching for answers to burning questions, and said it goes hand in hand with genealogy.

When we first wrote this article, it compared 23andMe and Ancestry. Since then, 23andMe has experienced a data breach, a subsequent lawsuit, board members' resignations and layoffs amidst financial ...

Armed with the genetic data of more than 1 million of its customers, the popular genealogical website Ancestry.com just announced it’s expanding in an entirely logical direction: Healthcare.

Ancestry has long appealed to people eager to learn about their family roots. Now the company known for its popular DNA kits is diving into a new area of discovery – health. Tuesday, Ancestry launched ...

Family history site Ancestry launched a new generational health database called AncestryHealth today. The news comes right as AncestryDNA – Ancestry’s genetics site that connects those on the platform ...

The Stories of Us campaign will bring over 250 real and diverse stories to life throughout the country’s milestone year.

A really awesome thing about being black is that ancestry can be very unclear because of, you know, slavery. Enter DNA kits. In 2013, I sent over my spit kit to 23andMe. After a couple of weeks, ...

Let’s face it: claiming a connection to some foreign nationality or ethnicity on the dubious basis of a great-grandparent or two is as American as apple pie. You know it, countless comedians know it, ...