Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still portrait by tracing where your ancestors moved across the globe over time. The statistical method can also be used ...

Investigative genetic genealogy helped New York authorities make major breakthroughs in two cold cases from 1995 and 2001 on the very same day. By building family trees using their genetic matches in ...

University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as tracing your ancestry, modeling disease spread and studying how animals ...