The next meeting of the Webster City Women’s Club will be held 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Jane Young House, 629 Elm St. in Webster City. Sharon Cline will give a presentation entitled “Ancestry DNA — ...

A son of a Filipina mother and Dutch father, Jonathan Wing always drew strength from family stories. He’s now helping others ...

A major study shows how people in Bronze Age Europe adapted to change through shifting ancestry, burial rites and daily life practices.

Because cremation dominates the Urnfield period, the Late Bronze Age has long been a “blind spot” for biomolecular research. The new study published in Nature tackled that gap by focusing on ...

An Oklahoma woman says she recently uncovered her family’s connection to a racial massacre in Arkansas, and she only learned about it because of an ancestry DNA test. Kaleda Ruck says her journey ...

Melissa Haplea a passion for 1,000-piece puzzles, a hobby she lovingly passed on to her grandson Jaxson. She also developed a deep interest in genealogy. Melissa adored her grandchildren, who kept her ...

A genetic test meant to introduce you to a lost cousin could also introduce info on your entire lineage to a stranger seeking profit.

Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans.

GeneConnect through Cone Health Systems needs just a swab from inside the cheeks to check for the risk of diseases and traits ...