DNA testing web site Ancestry has begun legal action to access millions of family records held by National Records of Scotland (NRS). The Scottish government body has refused to enter into a financial ...

Some of the newspaper articles describe the buying and selling of enslaved people, while others offer rewards for the return of runaways. Ancestry Thanks to the rise of commercial genealogy platforms, ...

The social worker said no. The judge said no. The local phone books were useless. For decades, no one and nothing could help Sue Warthen find the people who gave birth to her in the mid-1960s. Then ...

A video circulating on social media purports to demonstrate there are no birth records for the 19 children who died in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, painting this as evidence that the ...

People-search and family history Web sites have come under fire from California lawmakers, residents and privacy advocates concerned that personal data available online can be used to aid identity ...

A man who discovered his biological father’s name through DNA testing has inspired a new process for adding a parent’s name to an Iowa birth certificate. A new state law will let adults apply for a ...

When I sent DNA samples to genetic testing services searching for my birth family, I had no idea it would launch me on an adventure across three continents. In 1961, I was adopted at birth in ...

All Rich Crandall was expecting from his Ancestry.com test was a chuckle about his ethnic origins. But his expectations changed when his test results arrived in his email. Topping the list was a ...

The revelation was made after FIFA confirmed the one-year suspension of seven Malaysian national players who had been found ...