Volunteer investigative genetic genealogist Wendy Watson explains why police can’t upload crime scene DNA to Ancestry or 23andMe databases as Guthrie search continues third week.

While DNA evidence found on a glove believed to have been worn by a man suspected of abducting Nancy Guthrie didn't produce a match in the FBI's database, it could still give investigators the clues ...

Sewell-Smith credits her time as a journalist for her love of digging and searching for answers to burning questions, and ...

Sean McCowan carries the burden on his wrist. The number of days — 14,219 — etched in silver on a bracelet. A constant reminder of the agonizing, 39-year wait between the December 1983 murder of his ...

The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records. By Corey Kilgannon Since online genealogy ...

NEW YORK, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Blackstone (BX.N), opens new tab is weighing strategic options, including an initial public offering or a sale, for Ancestry.com, the hugely popular platform that helps ...

Ancestry, the Utah-based genealogy giant that helps people trace their family history, has acquired iMemories, a photo and digitization company headquartered in Scottsdale. Ancestry on July 30 ...

More than three decades ago, a pair of hikers discovered the mummified body of a prehistoric man on an Alpine pass along the border of Italy and Austria. Archaeologists have been obsessed ever since.

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the first ...

"The registrant is attempting to capitalize on the valuable goodwill of Ancestry for its own commercial gain," counsel for Ancestry.com allege in a lawsuit accusing a rival domain of unauthorized ...

Tyson Parker, a student at Brigham Young University, demonstrated how to submit a DNA test through Ancestry.com. Universe Live reporter Berlin Anderson takes us through the lens. The Daily Universe is ...

Planning to look into your family's history as a 2025 resolution? There are plenty of ways to get started — from Ellis Island passenger searches you can do online, to digitized census records ...