As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military ...

With further digging, I located a Washington descendant who had compiled just what I was looking for: a massive family tree that showed all the descendants of George Washington’s father.

Twenty-five years ago, a team of researchers excavated a cemetery in West Virginia hoping to find George Washington’s little brother. Five graves were unearthed, and after testing small bones ...

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

A DNA examination of remains in unmarked graves uncovered a mystery surrounding President George Washington’s family tree.

George Washington Slept Here A great and good man, but bringing him to life in a debunking age is a hard row to hoe ...

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

They attributed this to pedigree collapse — when marriages between relatives shortens the number of ancestors — caused by multiple cross-cousin marriages in the Washington family tree.