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Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...

That’s according to a new list of popular girls’ middle names, compiled by Ancestry UK. Their survey shows that the most popular second names for girls in the UK are Louise, Rose, Grace ...

The implications for British ancestry are profound: about 10% of white British ancestry can be traced back to this ancient population, according to BBC. Modern assumptions linking skin color to ...

Six British celebrities share what they discovered when their DNA was analysed and what ... over thousands of years to map the journeys our species took out of Africa as we populated the world. To ...

An curved arrow pointing right. We took a DNA test to find out our ancestry. Many of us have an idea of where we came from, but we wanted to see how much we really know about our family history.