SAN FRANCISCO — Would you spit in a tube and spend $99 to find out you were related to a famous 18th-century revolutionary or a notorious 19th-century bank robber? That's the latest genealogical lure ...

Family history site Ancestry launched a new generational health database called AncestryHealth today. The news comes right as AncestryDNA – Ancestry’s genetics site that connects those on the platform ...

Armed with the genetic data of more than 1 million of its customers, the popular genealogical website Ancestry.com just announced it’s expanding in an entirely logical direction: Healthcare.

A reader, who has a premium Ancestry.com subscription, recently asked me this: Is there any point in also searching for information on FamilySearch.org? Or can researchers assume Ancestry will give ...

(Reuters) - Ancestry.com Inc and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan have beat back a lawsuit alleging the company uses and profits from photos and personal data in its yearbook database ...

The Blackstone-owned genealogy giant Ancestry.com raised a ton of red flags earlier this month with an update to its terms and conditions that give the company a bit more power over your family photos ...

The owners of Ancestry.com Inc., the DNA analysis and family tree company, are turning to a well-tested private equity play for taking cash out of a company: topping up on debt. An investor group led ...

(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) When the pandemic isolated nearly everyone at home, our fascination with forebears ...

Genealogy site hopes to raise around $75 million with its initial public offering. Launched on the Web in 1997, the site now has almost 1 million paying customers. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...