Investigative genetic genealogy has moved from a niche forensic tool to a widely watched method for identifying unknown people when conventional DNA searches reach a dead end. The technique sits at ...

The project aims to create a publicly accessible database that allows living descendants to trace their family histories.

Have you ever considered starting a genealogy business? This guide will walk you through the steps of starting a home-based genealogy business.

A workshop to be held at Rocktown History on Friday could help people with questions about their ancestry fill in missing branches of their family trees.

Denise Merker, 55, made a heartbreaking confession about what she did to her newborn baby girl 33 years ago after Forensic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Genetic genealogy uses familial DNA to trace evidence back to suspects, and now investigators are using it in the search for Nancy ...

When a homicide detective in California’s Central Valley last year reopened the investigation into the unsolved killing of a bakery owner, she turned to an increasingly popular forensic tool credited ...

The 84-year-old disappearance of Nancy Guthrie from her house in Tucson has reached a critical phase, and investigators are intensifying their research, leveraging advanced forensic devices to ...

Delaware police have successfully used DNA genealogy, which is being considered to identify unknown DNA found in Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona kidnapping.

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 ...