Russell, a 74-year-old Springfield native, said he wasn’t aware until recently of his family’s ties to the American Revolution, despite the dramatic nature of his ancestor’s death — which ...

Kurt Russell Visits Massachusetts Home Of Revolutionary War Hero Ancestor On July 4th Actor Kurt Russell spent this Fourth of July walking through history. Actor Kurt Russell and his son Boston ...

Actor Kurt Russell spent this Fourth of July walking through history. The actor visited the Jason Russell House and Museum, once home to his ancestor Jason Russell, one of the first people killed ...

Lara Downes sits down with the brilliant jazz harpist to discuss the power of female lineage in the worlds of jazz and classical music.

I have an ancestor who was in Massachusetts in 1640. What is the best way to research ships that arrived before that time? Illustration by Melinda Beck I have an ancestor who was in Massachusetts ...

A fossil discovery of an ancient relative of the Australian magpie which lived in New Zealand some 19 million years ago challenges the understanding of ‘native’ species.

Magpies may not be a pesky Australian import—new research finds their ancestors thrived in NZ a long time ago by Vanesa De Pietri, Paul Scofield, Trevor H. Worthy, The Conversation ...

Marvin Humes discovers his ancestor had a secret second family while his best mate Sam Thompson finds out that his ‘posh’ background is completely fake, in a revelatory episode of DNA Journey.

While the earliest non-mammalian synapsids, the ancestors of living mammals, had a sprawling posture, researchers debated when and how the upright postures of modern mammals evolved.