When fate presented Gayathri Padmam with a project that involved reviving—and carefully transplanting—elements from an ancestral home into a Bengaluru bungalow fit for a young family, it felt less ...

America is approaching its 250th anniversary, and Ancestry is marking the milestone by telling 250 different family stories — a way to reflect the complexity of how the country was built, the company ...

Archaeologists have questioned who made five raised rings in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria. Some have proposed that the 65-foot-wide rings, located in what is now the Melbourne suburb ...

The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records. By Corey Kilgannon Since online genealogy ...

In the refrain of her song, “Woodstock,” Joni Mitchell urged us to get ourselves back to the garden, a metaphor for a retreat from modern life and a return to spiritual connection with the land. For ...

Modern humans inherited part of their ancestry from multiple, genetically distinct Denisovan groups through interbreeding events. However, the history of contact with Denisovans remains unclear. By ...

The Pit River Tribe has regained ownership of 270 acres of ancestral land along the Fall River. The Western Rivers Conservancy purchased the Pope Jensen Ranch in early September and transferred it to ...

In the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia, Indigenous youths continue to practice Arat Sabulungan, a cosmology that sees nature as filled with spirits, while blending it with Islam and Christianity.

The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel recently reacquired more than 1,000 acres of its ancestral land in San Diego County, the tribe announced Tuesday. The historic deal returned 1,107 acres of land on the ...

The state of Illinois is helping African Americans trace their roots in Africa. Illinois has launched a statewide initiative aimed at helping African Americans reconnect their ancestral ties to Africa ...

Ancestry has acquired the home-movies-and-photos digitizer service iMemories, a bet by the genealogy company that subscribers who spend their money on DNA kits and pour their time into building family ...

320 acres in El Dorado County returned to Miwok tribe. Land transfer followed years of conservation work and tribal-nonprofit partnership. Miwok descendants plan land stewardship through cultural ...