As thousands of Chinese families take DNA tests, the results are upending what adoptees abroad thought they knew about their ...

Five crew members, including Goodsell, were sailing from Connecticut to Philadelphia to deliver marble to a yet-to-be-opened college preparatory boarding school in 1844 when the ship likely sprang a ...

WASHINGTON U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Peter Welch (D-VT) on Thursday introduced the Carla Walker Act, which would dedicate existing federal grant funds to support forensic genetic genealogy ...

A bill co-authored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) would increase funding for advanced DNA analysis with the hope of helping to solve cold cases.

Leonardo da Vinci was the illegitimate son of a notary and a woman whose identity remains shrouded in mystery. He died in ...

Skeletal remains found on different beaches along the South Jersey Shore belong to the captain of a 19th century ship that ...

Officials are calling on New England families of Italian, Spanish, or Greek extraction, who may have lost touch with a ...

In the mid-1970s, San Francisco’s gay community was haunted by a serial killer known as The Doodler, named for his habit of sketching victims before luring them to their deaths.

As the 35th anniversary of Paige’s disappearance approaches, Michele continues to do what her late mother, Ardis, did before ...

If someone found my lynched and decapitated body lying under a Confederate flag with a “Make America Great Again!” baseball cap nearby, chances are you’d still be able to identify […] ...

For the first time, a federally recognized Indigenous tribe has led a genetic study confirming their ancestral connection to ...