Ongoing updates to popular genealogy company Ancestry.com have sent some users into a full-blown identity crisis. Ancestry.com is beginning to roll out changes to its users' ethnic backgrounds which ...

Genealogy websites have become popular over the last few years as they offer an interactive and engaging experience for people who want to learn more about their family history. It is an excellent ...

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Scientists are expanding the methods by which law enforcement can use DNA information gathered through sites like Ancestry.com and 23andMe to solve crimes – and they're raising ethical questions along ...

For police officers in the US, the genetic profiles that 20 million people have uploaded to consumer DNA sites represent a tantalising resource that could be used to solve cases both new and cold. But ...

I’ve always found genealogy boring. But it’s about to get exciting, very exciting, and for everybody. Millions of people around the world spend hours tracing their “roots” as far back as they can.

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Police are exploring a DNA technique which is credited with cracking scores of unsolved murders in the US, the Standard can reveal. Scotland Yard said it is leading a pilot on behalf of national ...

• Indexes of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales; census index and images for England and Wales; census index and transcripts for Scotland, plus ...

Two years ago, a wily detective on the cusp of retirement came up with a seemingly outrageous plan to catch a serial killer he had been hunting for 24 years – he would secretly plunder the fruits of ...