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Our Ancestors Will Come to Us

I have loved family history all my life. In my spare time at Ricks College my freshman year I would spend a good deal of my spare time finding family group sheets (in those days) a...

"Tracing Forward" - New geneaology resource to find living Irish relatives

The new resource from Accredited Genealogists Ireland focuses on tracing families forward through time rather than backwards through earlier generations.

Why Baby Boomers Have a Keen Interest in Genealogy

Personal Perspective: The complexities of ancestry force us to reconsider what it really means to leave a legacy.

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...

Mathematical genealogy

Having a PhD student is like having a child. I have had many such “children” graduate, and have another two “on the way”. (See here for my offspring.) Going in the other direction,...

Legacy of Carol P. Christ: We Could Have Been Canadians and Other Thoughts about My New England Colonial Heritage

This was originally posted on Sept 1, 2014 My 2x great-grandparents Nathaniel Searing and Louisa Caroline Martin were pioneers who cleared the land and built a log cabin in Lyons,...

Does your last name have royal roots? These common surnames might surprise you

Your last name might reveal more about your family’s past than you ever imagined. While many surnames seem ordinary today, some can be traced to noble houses, powerful dynasties, a...

DNA reveals a society organised around women in pre-Roman Britain

Descent passed from mother to daughter rather than from father to son, a study of more than 500 Iron Age individuals from north-east England suggests

Ancestry used AI to uncover a mind-blowing family connection. Now the company is trying to do it again

Kyle Miller, the VP of product at Ancestry—the online genealogy company that also operates Newspapers.com and Find A Grave, among other sub-brands—has worked for the company for mo...

New technique pinpoints human DNA inherited from 'ghost' ancestors

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of long-ago interbreeding among modern humans and at least four...

The ghost ancestors hiding in your DNA: Scientists uncover traces of two mysterious human relatives we've never found

Hidden traces of two mysterious human species have been discovered hiding inside our DNA.

Ancient DNA Reveals a Medieval Burial Mystery: They Weren’t Family

Ancient DNA is reshaping interpretations of family, childhood, and burial customs in medieval Scandinavia. In a medieval grave, an adult and a child lie side by side. For generatio...

Two Mysterious ‘Ghost’ Ancestors Are Hiding in Our DNA

Neanderthals and Denisovans interbred with the ancestors of modern humans, leaving recognizable traces in our DNA. Evidence now suggests that modern humans also interbred with two...

Distant cousins connect to honor fallen family member 110 years after EOW

In the era when many families are discovering their roots through DNA testing, it’s affirming to hear how one extended family found each other across the Atlantic Ocean to remember...

An Unlikely Lineage: One Woman’s Family Mystery Led Her to Jewish Roots

How born-and-raised Mexicana Samantha Rodriguez unearthed her surprising Jewish heritage. <p>The post An Unlikely Lineage: One Woman’s Family Mystery Led Her to Jewish Roots...

Generation zero: your ancestor didn’t have to be born in Canada to pass on Canadian citizenship

Many people researching their family history assume there’s only one way to have a Canadian ancestor: that at some point, someone in their lineage must have been born in Canada. Bu...

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

Ghost Agencies, Short Memories, and Ancestral Shame

The most recent news from Nigeria and across the world is available at The News Chronicle. The News Chronicle provides the most recent headlines, commentary, and political news. To...

Citizenship by descent: When your Canadian ancestor left no paper trail, other parts of your family tree may have the ev...

You order the birth certificate. You wait weeks. Then the letter comes back from the provincial vital statistics office: no record found. Your Canadian ancestor was born before the...

Remembering Generations: Why Passing Down Our Genealogy Matters

“The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.” Joseph Smith As the years quietly gather behind us, our thoughts naturally turn tow...

Your citizenship by descent claim needs proof your ancestor was naturalized. This free list may hold it

You know your great-grandfather came to Canada from somewhere in Eastern Europe. You know he naturalized and became Canadian because your grandmother said so. What you do not have...

Iron Age Scythian Status May Have Been Inherited, Including by a One-Year-Old Given an Elite Burial

Learn how ancient DNA linked elite Scythian relatives buried up to 87 miles apart and showed that Iron Age social status may have passed through family lines.