Becca Stanek is an experienced writer and editor who is passionate about exploring the ways we can feel better mentally and physically to get the most out of our lives. She has worked for publications ...

(The Root) — How exciting it is to me that we at The Root are kicking off Black History Month by inaugurating our new genealogy column, “Tracing Your Roots”! Researching my own family’s roots has been ...

Perhaps neither service has enough Native Americans in their database to diagnose Indian DNA. Years ago, I read that one of these services got the Irish all wrong by only testing for the red hair gene ...

A mile into Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon, heading east from Salt Lake City toward the Wasatch ski slopes, several concrete arches open into the face of a mountain. Behind doors designed to ...

For many Mexican-Americans, tracing the family tree hasn't been so easy. Now that's changing for America's largest minority group as a wealth of genealogical data, including a landmark 1930 census in ...

A common ancestor linked two of the 1977 miniseries most unlikely players Nearly 130 million people turned into ABC’s 1977 miniseries Roots during it’s original airing – establishing it as one of the ...

African Ancestry co-founder Dr. Gina Paige helps Black people connect to their personal history one swab at a time. She credits her family for her interest in connecting others to their lineages. “I ...

Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She covers tips and tricks for apps, operating systems and devices, as well as mobile gaming and Apple Arcade news. Shelby also ...