About nine million years ago, a hybridization involving the lineage of another farmers market star gave rise to the ...

Evidence of a worm-like creature about the size of a grain of rice has been uncovered in South Australia, and researchers believe it is the oldest ancestor on the family tree that includes humans ...

Barbara Rae-Venter never anticipated that her genealogy hobby would lead to the capture of one of California's most notorious ...

WhileJ.R.R. Tolkien's detailed history of his fictional world includes thousands of years of different cultures, one family is especially notable. Long before his birth, Aragorn's (Viggo Mortensen) ...

Maud Newton spent decades researching genealogic records, genetic science, and the cultural history of "ancestor hunger"; her book is also a coming-to-terms with how to face and honor family history.

According to the records I found, Hewlett Sands was born on Nov. 29, 1820, in the home of the Townsend family, a wealthy and powerful family on Long Island who held many enslaved people before New ...

We Traced Pope Leo XIV’s Ancestry Back 500 Years. Here’s What We Found. Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff ...

It's hard to tell when—and why—our ancestors got down from trees and started walking on two legs. Many early hominins capable ...

From Family Trees to 23andMe, and Back Again Maud Newton’s “Ancestor Trouble” is a sweeping genealogical investigation that becomes an investigation of genealogy itself.

BOOK REVIEW Our tangled family trees in Maud Newton’s ‘Ancestor Trouble’ By Lorraine Berry Globe Correspondent,Updated March 24, 2022, 4:50 p.m. illo for books sandra dionisi for the boston ...

According to the records I found, Hewlett Sands was born on Nov. 29, 1820, in the home of the Townsend family, a wealthy and powerful family on Long Island who held many enslaved people before New ...