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 Learning About Ourselves From Genealogy

For people who feel driven to explore their ancestry, compiling a family tree is often about rediscovering something that’s been lost.

 Learning About Ourselves From Genealogy

For people who feel driven to explore their ancestry, compiling a family tree is often about rediscovering something that’s been lost.

 Scientists Unveil 'Unified Genealogy of Modern and Ancient Humans'

Scientists have unveiled the largest human family tree ever created, a shared ancestry that is woven out of more than 3,600 individual genome sequences that date back more than 100,000 years, providing an unprecedented glimpse into the deep past and complex present of our species.

 The limits of ancestry DNA tests, explained

23andMe wants to sell you vacations based on your DNA. But what are they really basing that on?

 We’re analysing DNA from ancient and modern humans to create a ‘family tree of everyone’

Did you know that it’s now possible to sequence all of your DNA for about the cost of a smartphone? This will reveal your unique genetic makeup, and can be used to work out the similarities and differences between yourself and other people around the world at a genetic level. But how can you make sense of this information, and what does your genetic variation tell you?

 What DNA ancestry tests can — and can’t — tell you

I took a DNA ancestry test. It didn’t tell me where my ancestors came from.

 “I feel like my ancestry is the story of America”

3 Black Americans who unlocked personal history using DNA testing and online historical databases.

Best Free Genealogy and Family History Websites

Finding your ancestors for free seems like an impossible task. Everywhere you turn, subscription-based access seems to be the only way to gain the family tree information you’re desperately seeking. But before you take out that second mortgage, take some time to do research on some of these totally free genealogy websites. Each of them has been reviewed and selected by our experts, and at some point winning our annual coveted “Best Websites” award.

DNA, Genealogy And The Search For Who We Are

The amount of DNA you pass on to your descendants roughly halves with each generation. It is a matter of chance which of your descendants actually carry any of your DNA.

Does a Pie Chart Change Who You Are?

Sometimes a DNA test result challenges your entire sense of identity.

Genetic testing brings families together

And sometimes tears them apart.

Home genealogy kit sales plummet over data privacy concerns

Industry executives, market watchers and genealogists have all speculated about the causes of the drop in consumer interest. Market saturation? Early adopters tapped out? Limited usefulness? Recession fears? Whatever the theory, everyone seems to agree on one factor: privacy concerns.

How a Tiny Website Became the Police's Go-To Genealogy Database

Ever since investigators revealed that a genealogy website led police to arrest a man as California’s notorious Golden State Killer, interest in using genealogy to solve crimes has exploded. DNA from more than 100 crime scenes has been uploaded to the same genealogy site. A second man, linked to a double murder in Washington state, has been arrested. This is likely only the beginning.

How African Are You?

What genealogical testing can’t tell you.

How Genealogy Became Almost as Popular as Porn

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 900-page American family saga, which reached back to 18th century Gambia, certainly delivered on that. But it also shared with all Americans the emotional and intellectual rewards that can come with discovering the identity of your ancestors.

How Iceland's Genealogy Obsession Leads to Scientific Breakthroughs

Icelanders love keeping track of how they're related, which has made them "the world champions of human genetics.”

How to Dig Up Family History Online

Digitized newspaper archives and hyperlocal historical sources can help you understand how your ancestors lived.

How your third cousin’s ancestry DNA test could jeopardize your privacy

Public DNA databases can be used to find you — even if you never shared your own DNA.

Life span has little to do with genes, analysis of large ancestry database shows

Millions of amateur genealogists assembling family trees on Ancestry.com probably figure they’re just finding lost relatives and assessing their genetic proximity to Prince Harry, but in fact they have unintentionally made a significant contribution to science. An analysis of 54 million of the website’s public family trees finds that the heritability of life span, a hot research topic for decades, is considerably less than widely thought.

Putting the Gene Back in Genealogy

Your DNA holds the secrets of your ancestry, and at least a dozen companies offer to crack the code. But there's more than a bit of hype here.

The mythical quest for our ancestors is big business

The raw material of family history is biological as much as it may be fantasy, its manifestation collective as much as it begins with the individual, and its meanings metaphysical as much as it trades in the verifiable.

What do people inherit from their ancestors?

Nearly one in seven American adults are curious enough about their forebears to have tested their dna, according to the Pew Research Centre, a think-tank. Maud Newton is one of them—but as well as spitting into a tube she spent years digging into her ancestry, researching not just her lineage but everything from the science of genetics to traditional “ancestor veneration”.

When Searching Your Ancestry Means Finding a Sense of Possibility

An 18-year-old genealogist discovered 25,000 connections and a new community.

‘It made me question my ancestry’: does DNA home testing really understand race?

Dubious results, emotional fallout, privacy concerns: inside the £7.7bn industry that promises to tell you who you really are