A new genetic study published in the journal Cell is filling in some important details about the earliest inhabitants of ...

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

One local author reconnects with her Black American identity and familial tradition through her maternal ancestral journey in ...

Every March, St. Patrick's Day rolls around with parades, pints of Guinness, and plenty of Kelly green. But for many Irish Americans, it also brings something deeper: curiosity. Where exactly did your ...

Every March, St. Patrick's Day rolls around with parades, pints of Guinness, and plenty of Kelly green. But for many Irish Americans, it also brings something deeper: curiosity. Where exactly did your ...

Alex Sundby is a senior editor at CBSNews.com. In addition to editing content, Alex also covers breaking news, writing about crime and severe weather as well as everything from multistate lottery ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — A Q-tip, a tissue and a pizza crust. To investigators, this seemingly innocuous trash was DNA-laden treasure, helping crack the cases of the University of Idaho murders, the Golden ...

Genetic genealogy – the forensic tool behind hundreds of long‑stalled case breakthroughs, including the 2016 slaying of a New Jersey man found shot and dumped on a Brandywine Hundred neighborhood ...

I explore cases where athletes who look shockingly alike took DNA tests to check their ancestry. Shoppers alarmed by what's happening at malls: "Living in hell" Explosive mid-March storm to impact 200 ...

Authorities trying to solve the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie say they might tap DNA genealogy databases, the same step that police took to unravel a decades-old series of murders in California and ...

LOCAL ORGANIZATION THAT CAN HELP. YOU EVER WONDER WHERE YOU COME FROM OR WHO YOU COME FROM? WELL, FINDING THAT INFORMATION ISN’T ALWAYS EASY, ESPECIALLY FOR BLACK FAMILIES. BUT RIGHT HERE IN THE HEART ...