Two men convicted of a grisly, 1985 murder asked the Connecticut Supreme Court on Friday to either exonerate them or grant them a new trial in light of new DNA testing that places an unknown female at ...

Julie Lingenfelter Moyer looks at photos of her great-grandmother, Ruth Russell Koontz, at the Blair County Genealogical Society in Hollidaysburg. Moyer used DNA testing to help figure out how Koontz ...

Many adoptees are submitting their DNA for analysis in hopes of finding their parents and other ancestors, only to get results that further confuse them. They might have matches for several cousins of ...

I don’t know much about certain branches of my family tree, so I’ve always been keen to do some digging and see what I can uncover. I do know one side of my family has been in and around the same ...

As ancestry companies expand their databases and grow, testing one's DNA and unlocking the past has become relatively quick and easy to do. So, what's the process for sending in DNA for an ancestry ...

Nowadays, people can find detailed answers on just about any topic within seconds. Up until recently, the only exception was information about ourselves and our own lineage. But that’s all changing.

As the oldest DNA testing company, Family Tree DNA’s age shows in its outdated-looking website and results compared to newer, sleeker services like 23andMe and AncestryDNA. But it does take privacy ...