MyHeritage is a genealogy platform that offers DNA testing kits and access to billions of historical records. The platform allows users to build family trees, discover ancestral connections and ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on genealogy, record-keeping and notions of relation. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I have taken over keeping my family tree. I am fortunate that this tree dates to the ...

Pixabay Paperweight from Thomas Potter, Sons & Co. Parker Potter is a former archaeologist and historian, and a retired lawyer. He is currently a semi-professional dog walker who lives and works in ...

Now that we have easy and open access to DNA testing, family mysteries are often mysteries no more. But for people across the globe, family trees remain an often murky subject. It’s part of why ...

A woman researching her family tree discovered something devastating about her great-grandmother who she never knew, and she told Newsweek of the sadness she felt about the way she died. Stephanie ...

Judy Russ says her late husband, Dan Russ, always believed the giant spruce outside their home would one day make a perfect Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. Now, that long-held dream is coming true ...

When my father retired as a federal investigator, we all chipped in to buy him a kayak. We assumed he’d spend his autumnal years at the center of a lake, fishing line rippling the water. But the kayak ...