Benedict Cumberbatch and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are related  Ancestry.com researchers recently announced. Common Ancestor: John of Gaunt (...

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are allegedly 19th cousins Let's just say, even if true, this isn't very surprising. The genealog...

I think the people at Geni  have played one two many games of Degrees of Kevin Bacon and are confused about what it means to be related. ...

Image Source:  Office of Biological and Environmental Research  of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Sense about Science...

Many media sources have recently printed the following fact: Hillary Duff is the closest US celebrity relative to the Queen. They share Ed...

According to the AP A genealogist at the Utah-based Ancestry.com, Anastasia Tyler, said Obama and Palin are 10th cousins through a common a...

Earlier this week, C-Span uploaded almost its entire video library - covering 23 years - over 160,000 hours. All accessible online for fre...

The first episode of NBC's Who Do You Think You Are has aired. Lots of Genea-bloggers are writing their posts, comparing it to PBS...

Snoop Dogg is shocked by some DNA results taken for the Lopez Tonight show, which indicated he was 6% European, and 23% Native American. ...

Back in November of 2007, upon their release(*), I reviewed Ancestry.com's Our Name in History line of books. I summarized: Someone wh...

As the Genealogue points out the UPI's headline for an article on Michelle Obama, "Future First Lady had an Illiterate Ancestor...

Using mitochondrial DNA, researchers are able to prove that Vikings conquered much of the British Isles. Viking Mice .

Kimberly Powell and Craig Manson both discuss the Vatican’s recent announcement In an effort to block posthumous rebaptisms by the Church ...

In 2005 a man tried to legally change his name to his wife's name, and was told he would have to pay four times what his wife would have...

Bone shards identified as that of Crown Prince Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria ending century-long mystery of the whereabouts of the heirs t...

I always thought that genealogy was for people whose blood ran blue. It was for folks who traced their ancestry to the Mayflower or the Amer...

There's a fun article in the Tampa Tribune on a Genealogy of Biblical Proportions . The article is about a genealogy discovered on Ances...

The compilers of Confucius' descendants have been working for ten years, and have finally decided they're finished. "We have re...

If in November, the US election is between Obama and McCain all American descendants of William the Lion will be emotionally torn: which cou...

It was the early-1930s, Great Depression, my grandfather and a couple friends hopped a train in St. Louis and rode it to California. Upon a...