Melvin Warring is a famed abstract painter, known for some groundbreaking work in the late 80s, who now lives a reclusive life in East Oakland with his wife and business manager June. One day as he’s ...

Courts in India are now making it clear that simply calling or acknowledging a property as ‘ancestral’ is no longer enough for an individual to claim rights over it. If you are a claimant, you must ...

In northeastern Gabon, the community of Massaha used participatory mapping to document ancestral villages, sacred sites and traditional land use inside a rainforest slated for industrial logging.

More than 650 acres of ancestral land will return to the stewardship of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in the latest of several historic transfers to the tribe. In coordination with ...

(RNS) — Though often linked to Black diasporas and Indigenous culture, the practice is deeply rooted in American culture, said the Rev. William Lamar IV. (RNS) — When visiting his maternal grandmother ...

Whether you want to authenticate well-loved family stories or are unaware of your family history and need a place to start, personal DNA testing has never been easier. At-home DNA tests are a popular ...

When fate presented Gayathri Padmam with a project that involved reviving—and carefully transplanting—elements from an ancestral home into a Bengaluru bungalow fit for a young family, it felt less ...

America is approaching its 250th anniversary, and Ancestry is marking the milestone by telling 250 different family stories — a way to reflect the complexity of how the country was built, the company ...

The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records. By Corey Kilgannon Since online genealogy ...

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In the refrain of her song, “Woodstock,” Joni Mitchell urged us to get ourselves back to the garden, a metaphor for a retreat from modern life and a return to spiritual connection with the land. For ...

Modern humans inherited part of their ancestry from multiple, genetically distinct Denisovan groups through interbreeding events. However, the history of contact with Denisovans remains unclear. By ...