The Custis children’s names were absent for good reason: They were not blood-related to George Washington at all. They would appear on a separate family tree only for the Custis family, into ...

The research team used Y chromosome DNA to study the paternal relationships in the Washington family tree. A new method of sequencing genetic data allowed the team to study nearly 100,000 single ...

Nearly 50 years after 31-year-old Kathryn Donohue’s body was found in Glenarden, Maryland, Prince George’s County police announced an arrest in the case.

DNA analysis of unmarked remains has shed light on a long-standing mystery surrounding the fates of President George Washington’s younger brother Samuel and his kin.

Charles Holman's research into his genealogy turned up connections to the ancestors of President George H.W. Bush. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) ...

George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor, sometimes known as the “Peanut Man”. In the early 1900s, he developed hundreds of products using peanuts, soya ...

Even George Washington Was a Tyrant. 7 minute read. circa 1800: American president George ... Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America will be published by Oxford University Press ...

An investigation at a cemetery uncovered skeletal remains belonging to some of George Washington’s relatives. The remains of Washington’s family members were located in unmarked graves. In ...

Researchers have identified the remains of two of George Washington's grandnephews 200 years after their deaths. The team used new DNA sequencing techniques.

DNA analysis of unmarked remains has shed light on a long-standing mystery surrounding the fates of President George Washington’s younger brother Samuel and his kin.

But unlike George Washington, who is interred in a ... when marriages between relatives shortens the number of ancestors — caused by multiple cross-cousin marriages in the Washington family tree.