Identity, connection, and history. Those are just some of the values two local experts listed when asked about the importance ...

Remains of a woman known as "Falls Road Jane Doe" -- which were found in a wooded area nearly 30 years ago -- have been ...

Elon Musk was born in 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in a wealthy family under the country's racist apartheid ...

Watch 'Abbott Elementary' star Sheryl Lee Ralph discover her ancestor was a free Black man in the mid 1800s on an exclusive ...

University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as ...

Layered over the first image, the caption reiterates the idea that it's "impossible to have pictures of 9 generations of ...

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing services carry considerable privacy risks, as the bankruptcy filing of Cailfornia-based ...

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness month and perhaps no one knows better than Joy Parmentier how important being aware ...

The bankruptcy filing of 23andMe has sparked the potential for a sale that could be used to solve cold cases with the use of ...

The Wisconsin Historical Society and the Cottage Grove Library Board will host a presentation about family genealogy on Thursday, March 27 at 6 p.m. at village hall, 221 E. Cottage Grove Road. The ...

Genetic ancestry testing firm 23andMe filed for bankruptcy over the weekend citing declining demand for the company's product ...

Spring energizes timeless urges to shed the old, fix the broken, and create anew. So it was at our home. My son provided the impetus to tackle a long postponed ...