Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope's past in New York Times Magazine piece.

Advances in our understanding of DNA have brought about many changes. One of them is just how easy it is now to obtain a DNA ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

A large government study published Thursday shows more definitively than ever before that Americans’ self-reported race is a ...

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. joins Morning Joe to discuss Season 11 of 'Finding Your Roots'. Season 11 features appearances by ...

Lenworth Spence (second right) with his parents, Selvyn Spence (left) and Winnifred Spence (right) who are from Westmoreland, ...

Ancestry CEO Howard Hochhauser told the Fortune COO Summit that he didn't initially seek out the corner office.

The Champaign Public Library’s Douglass Branch is hosting its 18th annual Juneteenth Emancipation Celebration on June 14.  The event will take place from 12 to 3 p.m. and have activities like outdoor ...

"What does the pope think about us being related? That's my question," one cousin said. "What does he think of us because ...

A new study from the NIH’s All of Us program is shaking up long-held assumptions by revealing that genetic ancestry rarely ...

A company like 23andMe can answer a lot of questions for an adoptee. But those answers come with a high cost to privacy.