The presence of Africans in Britain has been recorded since Roman times, but has left no apparent genetic trace among modern inhabitants. Y chromosomes belonging to the deepest-rooting clade of ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

The scene is the York office of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, circa 1220. The Head Scribe is making final adjustments to the next edition.

A YOUNGSTER took a step back into her family’s past at Beamish after she found relics from an ancestor’s shop on show there. Annabel Jones, five, of Fountains Primary School, at Grantley, near ...

Family historian Denny Gibson has discovered a link between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, whose ancestors both lived in Masham in the early 1800s.

If a common ancestor of all living humans is defined as an individual who is a genealogical ancestor of all present-day people, the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) for a randomly mating ...