Grave of Liney "Lucy" Watson Osborn in Lavonia, Georgia. Watson, who married Nelson Osborn, is the sixth-great grandmother of ...

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

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Physicists at the University of Amsterdam came up with a really cool bit of Christmas decor: a miniature 3D-printed Christmas tree, a mere 8 centimeters tall, made of ice, without any refrigeration ...

Ancestry DNA is designed to offer users more information on their ancestral roots, with a combination of advanced technology and the world's largest online family history resource. The genetic test ...

Indigenous scholar Dina Gilio-Whitaker wants Natives to approach a difficult topic rationally, vulnerably and honestly.

In a Quebec courtroom last October, Sylvie Desjardins delivered a message to her daughter’s killer that was 30 years in the ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little Foot,” fossil an exquisitely preserved hominin found in South Africa’s ...

Nearly 33 years after Alex Rymer and Tyron Burr were shot to death in Waco, police are using advanced DNA technology to try ...

Keira Knightley, left, and Matthew Macfadyen star in Focus Features’ 'Pride & Prejudice' from 2005, based on the novel by ...

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Scotland is known for many different things to different people and is a fascinating country with an intriguing history. Here ...