The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be ...

Make genograms of relationships or medical history–as well as regular family trees–with GenoPro. Tracing can be like a forensics procedural, only with fewer neat answers. There are many reasons for ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on genealogy, record-keeping and notions of relation. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I have taken over keeping my family tree. I am fortunate that this tree dates to the ...

For the UK, the most obvious answer is around the late 1400s. Assuming a generation every 25 years, it’s a simple ...

Before the French Revolution, family trees were reserved for the feudal upper classes, who used them to consolidate their social status. While feudalism broke down and family trees lost their old ...