People who submit DNA to ancestry websites are now leading to arrests. Christine Franke was a 25-year-old college student when she was shot dead in her Orlando apartment on Oct. 21, 2001. Though DNA ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Need help filling in that family tree? There are resources you may not know about that can help you research your heritage and connect with family members. And it’s as close as ...

Consumer genomics company Ancestry has confirmed it fought two U.S. law enforcement requests to access its DNA database in the past six months, but that neither request resulted in turning over ...

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CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - More and more John and Jane Doe cold cases are being cracked everyday thanks to detective work and investigative genetic genealogy. But sometimes, experts say African American ...

A free-to-use, publicly accessible genealogy and DNA database helped bring police a step closer to the man they believe is the Golden State Killer, a key investigator in the case told CNN. A ...

During Pride Month in June, LGBTs interested in family history received interesting news: beginning next year, the world's largest genealogy organization, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

For many weeks now, the gruesome quadruple murders of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin have been the subject of intense national coverage ...

LEHI, Utah, Aug. 09, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The power of the AncestryDNA network continues to grow as Ancestry today announced that more than five million people have taken an AncestryDNA test. As ...

If you're interested in learning more about your ancestors, you may be one of many people who've used ancestry.com to trace your genealogy. Now that website has released a new, free database of tens ...

GEDmatch's new "opt-in" policy went into effect on Sunday. A change to GEDmatch, a third-party genealogy site that's helped crack cold cases through user's DNA, may hinder law enforcement's ability to ...