“We use them primarily for sharing family stories,” she says. “The tree is really the framework on which to hang the ...

Melissa Joan Hart teams up with Ancestry to show how exploring family history can ease holiday stress, strengthen mental health, and help families feel more connected.

In May, I traveled to England to interview, film and photograph for a documentary and articles marking Karl G. Maeser and ...

Do you have an uncle who always seems short of breath? Did one of your grandparents or parents die at an early age from "heart problems?" If heart failure is in your family tree, you might wonder if ...

“It’s a privilege to live in Washington if you’re interested in family history,” says Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney. When she decided to trace her family background for her new book ...

For many observers, the term “genomic medicine” conjures up space-age images of microarray chips, bioinformatics, and designer drugs. Today, with medicine poised at the dawn of the genomic era, it is ...

When multiple members of a family have had cancer especially at young ages or at the same site, it can signal inherited risk ...

Imagine popping your head into the attic of your childhood home and finding a box overflowing with recordings, photos, documents, and diaries compiled by relatives who have long passed.

Judging by the odds, I’m guessing you know someone who has or had a problem with addiction. For many people that “someone” is a family member. It could be your mom, dad, aunt, uncle, sibling, or ...

Everyone should know their family history of breast cancer. But when it comes to risk factors for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), the stakes are higher for some women of color. TNBC is diagnosed ...