Susan Burritt, a Chicago South Side resident, recently wrote to the Chicago Tribune after another reader, who thought he was Irish, had found out otherwise through a DNA test. It turned out she had ...

An Irishman living in Canada discovered that he was one of a few hundred babies that were illegally adopted in the 1950s and 1960s after taking a DNA test several years ago. Born in Ireland in 1958, ...

Three generations of women, on three continents, who never knew they were related have been brought together following a DNA ...

Cheryl Fergison has developed a deep affection for Ireland while filming in the Emerald Isle, so much so that she’s happily ...

Pat Sydlo-Arshan spent decades wondering about her Irish heritage, carrying fragments of family stories and newspaper clippings about relatives she'd never meet. At 73, she finally walked through the ...

RALEIGH, North Carolina (WTVD) -- DNA testing can be a fun way to unlock the mysteries of your family history, but you should also think about potential pitfalls. Tisha Powell and I decided to embark ...

Though it has taken nearly a year, a resolution is finally within reach after last year’s shocking news that my birth family is not Irish. Readers may recall my op-ed a few weeks before St. Patrick’s ...

(CNN) — John Portmann, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, was born as Thomas James Delehanty – a fact he didn’t know until a few years ago. He also didn’t know his ...

Kiss me! I’m Irish! In response to David McGrath’s op-ed (“My family’s Irish heritage made me proud. Then my sister got a DNA test.,” March 5), I was definitely going to tell him, “Kiss me! I’m Irish!

I took a DNA test during the very first COVID-19 lockdown. Perhaps it was boredom that made me take that chance and order the spit tube for the bargain price of £80 — I had nothing else to spend my ...