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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

In the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia, Indigenous youths continue to practice Arat Sabulungan, a cosmology that sees nature as filled with spirits, while blending it with Islam and Christianity.

Ancestry relies on multiple large language models to run its operations. The company built an AI gateway to help leverage the different models. CTO Sriram Thiagarajan said internal AI education is ...

AI has helped Ancestry streamline its operations. CTO Sriram Thiagarajan said its in-house AI tech cut the time needed to scan public records. Ancestry is beta testing a new AI feature called Audio ...

The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel recently reacquired more than 1,000 acres of its ancestral land in San Diego County, the tribe announced Tuesday. The historic deal returned 1,107 acres of land on the ...