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Americans are looking back centuries to find Canadian ancestors — and citizenship

Cody Sibley was born and raised in Louisiana, but he always felt his family shared strong ties to Canada thanks to his Acadian ancestors from Nova Scotia. Sibley said that as an ei...

A Revolutionary War soldier's DNA links him to living relatives

Continental Army soldier John Pumphrey enlisted as a teenager in 1777 and fought at significant battles before his death in action against the British in Camden, S.C.

Prince William’s surprising American roots trace back to patriots who battled the British: book

A new book called "American Crown" reveals Prince William descends from Revolutionary War patriot Nathan Hale and colonial ancestors who fought Britain.

Rainbow Nation

The New York Times has published An American Mosaic, an interactive map visualising the self-identified ancestry of Americans using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Comm...

Who was the 8-year-old boy of African ancestry buried among Colonial America’s elite? DNA study reveals

Numeroși americani se trag dintr-un grup restrâns de persoane din Europa

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Surprising Number of People Linked to Early US Colonists, DNA Study Finds

The analysis also identified remains of lost historical figures. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, su...

The top five states where Americans qualify for a Canadian passport through ancestry

Nearly one in every three New Hampshire residents may be dual Canadian-U.S. citizens, after Canada updated its Citizenship Act in December 2025. Compared to the rest of the country...

Your Canadian ancestry could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars – here’s how

Since Bill C-3 came into effect on December 15, 2025, thousands of Americans have been rediscovering their Canadian ancestry. The bill eliminated Canada’s first-generation limit, m...

Local ancestry inference with poorly-matched reference panels

by Sharon R. Browning, Seth D. Temple, Brian L. Browning The original FLARE method provides computationally efficient and highly accurate local ancestry inference in cases where a...