There are plenty of ways to get started — from Ellis Island passenger searches you can do online, to digitized census records available on Ancestry.com and more. Check out our list of ways you ...

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Researchers developed a more precise method of understanding ancestry from ancient DNA and used it to identify previously unknown waves of migration. Researchers have identified three major waves ...