Why You Should Dig Up Your Family’s History — and How to Do It The New York Times
Learning your history is forced reckoning, asking you to consider whose stories you carry with you and which ones you want to carry forward.
Is 2019 The Year You Finally Take an Ancestry DNA Test? SWNS Stories
Genetics may have been a drag while you were at school, but DNA testing has gone on to establish itself as one of the most unexpected and interesting trends of …
‘Inheritance’: When DNA Genealogy Shakes Our Identity, Foundation To The Core WBUR
A big meditation on the meaning of ancestry and family. We’ll talk to the author of the celebrated new book “Inheritance.”
Twins get some ‘mystifying’ results when they put 5 DNA ancestry kits to the test CBC.ca
One set of identical twins, two different ancestry profiles. At least that’s the suggestion from one of the world’s largest ancestry DNA testing companies.
How your at-home DNA test results could solve cold cases Washington Post
The rise of consumer genetic tests has provided law enforcement with new tools that have the potential to break open cold cases.
The Christmas present that could tear your family apart BBC News
This Christmas it’s likely that more people than ever before will spit into a tube, or swab some cheek cells and send the result off for DNA analysis. Millions in the …
Crime solvers embraced genetic genealogy Science News
DNA searches of a public genealogy database are closing cases and opening privacy concerns.
DNA Tales: These people found long-lost or never-known relatives Press & Sun-Bulletin
New York families have turned to DNA ancestry kits to circumvent strict adoption record policies.
Most White Americans’ DNA Can Be Identified Through Genealogy Databases The New York Times
A study found that it will soon be possible to identify the DNA of 90 percent of European Americans through cousins in genealogy databases.
When a DNA Test Shatters Your Identity The Atlantic
Like The Atlantic? Subscribe to The Atlantic Daily, our free weekday email newsletter. It was AncestryDNA’s customer-*service* rep who had to break the …