Genealogists use open-source data to build the family tree to find the most recent common ancestors and identify a suspect.

In July 2000, a woman was sexually assaulted and beaten inside a hotel change room in Belleville, Ont. Nearly 25 years later, DNA evidence found on a cigarette butt helped police identify the man ...

The Wake County Sheriff’s Office has identified a woman killed in a 1968 homicide using partner agencies and advancements in forensic genealogy.

Police in Las Vegas say help from Calgary police has aided them in identifying a victim of an apparent homicide almost 50 ...

Only a week after Beau Friesen was born, his parents knew something was wrong, but two years later, they still don't know ...

- U.S. Nobel laureate, biologist James Watson speaks at the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File). IAS DA ...