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.

MyHeritage is a genealogy platform that offers DNA testing kits and access to billions of historical records. The platform allows users to build family trees, discover ancestral connections and ...

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

A genetic test meant to introduce you to a lost cousin could also introduce info on your entire lineage to a stranger seeking profit.

For my entire life, I've always known that a certain family member of mine (okay fine, my grandad) had a... shady past. And like all older folk from the east end of London, stories of him rubbing ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on genealogy, record-keeping and notions of relation. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I have taken over keeping my family tree. I am fortunate that this tree dates to the ...

In 2017, I sent DNA samples to Ancestry, as well as to two other DNA companies. My parents had recently passed away, and I had some questions about my family background that I hoped the DNA might ...

Creating a family tree is a great way to understand your heritage and preserve family history for future generations. If you ...