Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.

Adrian's family tree spans 30 metres of paper ...

Ad operations don’t always get easier when a publisher has a strong first-party data foundation to build on. Ancestry.com can ...

A few years ago, I set out on my journey to learn if there were any Patriots in my family tree.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has publicly claimed Sephardic Jewish ancestry, but he has not identified as Jewish in religion or practice, and his own account described grandparents who ...

TOLEDO, Ohio. (WTVG/Gray News) - A father in Ohio reunited with his son, whom he never knew he had, after an Ancestry.com match. Calvin Cooper, 71, and Tim Holloway, 33, discovered their relationship ...

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 ...

Modern humans inherited part of their ancestry from multiple, genetically distinct Denisovan groups through interbreeding events. However, the history of contact with Denisovans remains unclear. By ...

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 ...

Ancestry, the Utah-based genealogy giant that helps people trace their family history, has acquired iMemories, a photo and digitization company headquartered in Scottsdale. Ancestry on July 30 ...

More than three decades ago, a pair of hikers discovered the mummified body of a prehistoric man on an Alpine pass along the border of Italy and Austria. Archaeologists have been obsessed ever since.