If this is the case, it means I share ancestry with Pope Leo XIV through my great-grandmother Eugenie Lemelle’s paternal ...

This story originally appeared in the Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008 edition of the. The battle continues for Native Americans who ...

I’m sure it would kill my younger sister if I told her what I found.

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Anyone who has tried to construct a genogram knows it’s a bit like working on a jigsaw puzzle. You start with the easy pieces and build around them. Merriam-Webster defines a genogram as a diagram ...

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On a square black velvet cloth, Lesly Ellis carefully shapes grains of rice in honor of the Mayan calendar symbol for this year’s Día de los Muertos, also known as Day of the Dead. The symbol changes ...

To be a patriot in Donald Trump’s America is like sitting through a loved one’s trial for some gruesome crime. Day after day your shame deepens as the horrifying testimony piles up, until you wonder ...

This writer traced her roots back to a small Calabrian village and found 100 living relatives. A new Italian initiative makes it easier for descendants to do the same in the country’s less-traveled ...

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 ...