Discovering one's roots and exploring cultural heritage can be a profound experience, particularly for African Americans ...

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"In some places in our genome, we're more Neanderthal than we are human," Joshua Akey, a professor of integrative genomics at ...

Dolly Parton has revealed she has Welsh roots and her family members are learning the language.The American-born country ...

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The Conversation presents the story of the racial prejudice that Japanese American soldiers faced in the US during World War ...

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Between shows like Finding Your Roots on PBS and the proliferation of companies like 23andMe, conversations about genealogy and family history have become mainstream—trendy, even. While not ...

For better and worse, the name Audubon has become almost synonymous with birds. The reason, of course, is John James Audubon, whose “Birds of America” project, published from 1827 to 1838 ...

If you’re on the quest to discover more about your genealogy or health, you may decide to try out an at-home genetic testing kit. AncestryDNA and MyHeritageDNA are two companies that provide ...

LOS ANGELES — The names of thousands of people held in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II have been digitized and made available for free, genealogy company Ancestry announced.

Ancestry.com is one of the world’s largest genealogy companies, providing billions of historical records and millions of DNA records to people who wish to research their family history ...