After my son asked about our family history, I set out to uncover my father's lineage, piecing together a family tree once ...

Since the human genome was first mapped, scientists have discovered hundreds of genes influencing illnesses like breast cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Unfortunately, Black people, ...

A nagging question she had pondered for years inspired professor Naseemah Mohamed’s latest course: What knowledge could she give students that they would carry with them beyond college? As an ...

Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She covers tips and tricks for apps, operating systems and devices, as well as mobile gaming and Apple Arcade news. Shelby also ...

Visiting family is one of the most common reasons many people travel. Increasingly, folks are also traveling to visit family who is no longer around, in the form of genealogy travel (also known as ...

Before she was celebrated on the front page of the New York Times. And before her name appeared in a Final Jeopardy! answer. Karen Batchelor was a teenager, who for a year in her life rode two Detroit ...

It's a question that has vexed researchers from the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak: Why do some people get severely ill and die from COVID-19, while others have mild symptoms or none at all?

Geneanet is a collaborated genealogy website featuring data added by its 5 million members, which is free for everyone to use. The website features the data of over 9 billion people, while also having ...

Interest in tracing family ancestry soared during the pandemic, according to the National Museum of Bermuda. The museum’s online genealogy database was used more than ever in 2020, prompting the ...

When it comes to history, especially Black history there is so much still untold. Alonzo Felder has made it his mission to capture and share some of those stories. When it comes to history, especially ...

When Ancestry.com embarked on a massive project to collect nearly 40,000 newspaper articles tracing the lives of 183,000 enslaved people in the United States, the date Aug. 22, 1862, could have ...

DETROIT – It's a question that has vexed researchers from the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak: Why do some people get severely ill and die from COVID-19, while others have mild symptoms or none ...