On Saturday, October 13, in Pier A, Battery Place, The Genealogy Event NYC gathered genealogy and Irish heritage enthusiasts together for a packed one-day overview of the tips and tricks needed to ...

Editor’s Note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get the latest news in aviation, food and drink, where to stay and other travel developments. John Portmann, a professor ...

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, ...

What is the hereditary information in genes? This fundamental question intrigued Jim Watson at a time when accumulating evidence was pointing to genes being made of DNA and not protein. The answer is ...