Genealogy

• Daughter of Holocaust survivor uses genealogy website to find family

  'My mother was a survivor from Ghetto Warsaw, and she managed to hide herself with a fake ID for the rest of the the war,' she said.

  Features

  Jul 5, 2024
  
• ‘Baby Mary’ finds birth parents more than 30 years after being abandoned in Calgary parking lot

  A B.C. woman has found her biological parents more than 30 years after being abandoned in a Calgary parking lot. 

  Features

  Jan 15, 2020
  
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• Police crack cold case using ice cream spoon from Baskin-Robbins

  Police used DNA from the spoon to link one suspect to two violent sexual assaults from 1997, according to a district attorney in California.

  Trending

  Nov 21, 2019
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• Are ancestry DNA tests private? What you’re giving away with a tube of spit

  Commercial DNA tests can help you learn about your family, but they also expose you and your relatives to a vast industry that wants to read your genes.

  Health

  May 12, 2019
• Rare DNA quirk could reveal mysteries of Newfoundland’s first settlers

  Only a handful of people from Europe - fewer than 10 - have been found to test positive for the specific profile, and almost all those have roots in Newfoundland and Labrador.

  Canada

  Apr 14, 2019
• Fingerprints required in Florida job application lead to arrest in 20-year-old unsolved murder case

  Sondra Better was killed at her workplace in 1998, days before she was set to renew her wedding vows, according to local news outlets.

  Crime

  Mar 28, 2019
• Curious Vancouver, Wash., woman’s DNA upload leads to arrest in 1979 unsolved murder

  Brandy Jennings says she was on a search to find information about the father that left when she was very young. Police found an alleged murderer instead.

  Crime

  Mar 27, 2019
• California police crack 45-year-old murder case using genealogy database

  Northern California authorities say they have cracked a 45-year-old murder case using the same publicly available DNA database investigators accessed to arrest alleged serial killer Joseph DeAngelo.

  Crime

  Nov 21, 2018
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• Study finds 60% of white U.S. population identifiable using DNA and genealogy websites

  The study by the journal 'Science' has found that 60% of the U.S. population with European descent was identifiable using databases from genealogy websites such as MyHeritage.com.

  Science

  Oct 12, 2018
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• Bob Layton: Be frank

  Will your descendants know who you were?

  Jun 15, 2018