A nationwide program is searching for the names of 10 million people who were enslaved in the United States over nearly three centuries.

American Idol judge Carrie Underwood breaks into tears during contestant's performance that made my mama heart so happy ...

“I uploaded my DNA and then they said if I was a match I would get a letter,” the woman told Newsweek.

Ruth Halloran of Antrim discovered she is descended from Mayflower passenger Degory Priest and joined the Mayflower Society of New Hampshire, and was later elected Regent of the Pine Tree Riot chapter ...

Investigative genetic genealogy has moved from a niche forensic tool to a widely watched method for identifying unknown people when conventional DNA searches reach a dead end. The technique sits at ...

The 84-year-old has been missing for over six weeks.

After years of dead ends, state labs used new DNA tools to link a 2021 attack in Texas to another case, resulting in an out-of-state arrest.

In 2024, investigators brought their forensic evidence to Othram, a DNA lab that has created a forensic database in part through members of the public contributing their DNA data, ...

Project leaders say the names and details gathered will be added to a publicly accessible database designed to help ...

Neicy DeShields-Moulton, 66, spent years digging through DNA and public records to answer questions her family avoided.

Members of Chicago’s first Black church rose to help enslaved people achieve their freedom because they knew theirs hung in the balance.

Police have launched a search for a missing child in Oxfordshire. Madison, whose surname or age was not revealed by Thames Valley Police, disappeared from the Witney area yesterday (Monday, March 9) ...