As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

The funerary stele of Mnesagora and Nikochares, an ancient Greek marble relief from Vari, near Athens,is a stunning example ...

This chart was prepared by Henry Louis Gates Jr., American Ancestors and the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami. It reflects the ...

Chiara Griffini, president of the Italian bishops’ conference’s Office for the Protection of Minors, said the increase in ...