Mike Fanning, the Pawley Island police chief, spends his free time using genetic genealogy to identify John Does. He just ...

Barbara Rae-Venter, a 76-year-old patent attorney living in Marina, California, thought she'd spend her retirement leisurely playing tennis, traveling, and indulging in her favorite pastime: ...

The practice of genealogy, researching one’s ancestors, has exploded lately. Ancestry.com has become a huge success, boasting millions of subscribers and a net worth well into the billions. Many, if ...

Alex Haley, author of the hugely popular 1976 book Roots, once said that black Americans needed their own version of Plymouth Rock, a genesis story that didn’t begin — or end — at slavery. His ...

Leslie Penrod Harris, 30, was found strangled to death on May 18, 1976. DNA and genetic genealogy have linked a former Marine to the murder of a young California woman who was strangled to death in ...

Becca Stanek is an experienced writer and editor who is passionate about exploring the ways we can feel better mentally and physically to get the most out of our lives. She has worked for publications ...

A woman who was found dead in 1982 has finally been identified, more than 40 years after her death. The remains were found by a real estate agent assessing land in Loxahatchee, Florida, in December ...

Montgomery County police have identified a suspect in two cold case rapes and a homicide that happened in Rockville, Maryland, in 1989 and 1994. The suspect, Kenneth Earl Day, died in March 2017 in ...

The 2018 arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo, infamously known as the Golden State Killer, put genetic genealogy on the map. Investigators created a DNA profile of DeAngelo using crime scene evidence, and ...

Roger Kelso was killed in about 1963. His body was found in 1985. A murdered man discovered in a Maryland trash can in 1985 has finally been identified through genetic genealogy, police said. The ...

Every “journey home” begins at home. The search to learn more about your ancestors—who they were, where they came from, what happened to them, and why—starts in conversations with relatives, in the ...

On an August day in Washington state, fields of crops stretch like seas until they bump up against 100-foot-high pines. Cars are rolling over the High Bridge as locals swim in the coursing stream ...