Australians looking to learn more about their heritage through commercial ancestry websites could be helping police solve ...

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

When we first wrote this article, it compared 23andMe and Ancestry. Since then, 23andMe has experienced a data breach, a subsequent lawsuit, board members' resignations and layoffs amidst financial ...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — To solve a decades-old serial rape and murder case that had gone cold, investigators used DNA gathered at a crime scene and created a fake profile and pseudonym on a genealogy ...

Genetic genealogists like Amanda Reno use different sources of DNA in their work. While some of the searching done by genealogists involves databases like CODIS (Combined DNA Index Service), other ...

QIAGEN’s ForenSeq Kintelligence System recently used by DNA Labs International in the U.S. to solve unidentified remains case in Oregon and 51-year-old criminal investigation in Georgia // ForenSeq ...

Scientists traced Leonardo da Vinci’s Y chromosome through living relatives, a breakthrough that may confirm his true burial ...

Earlier this month, state police in Connecticut held a “DNA drive” in an effort to help identify human remains found in the state. Family members of missing people were invited to submit DNA samples ...

The FBI is planning on using genetic genealogy in the Nancy Guthrie investigation. On Tuesday, Feb. 17, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that a glove found two miles from Nancy's Tucson ...