Ancestry members can also draw from any of the 70 million-plus public family trees that users have created on the site. In other words, most of these documented people are white.

Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has a rich and varied ethnic background. Her biracial heritage includes African American and Caucasian ancestry, reflecting the diverse lineages of her parents.

Apparently, because Davis has white ancestry, she never experienced systemic racism and shouldn’t advocate on behalf of Black people. T he thing is, Davis’s family history is like that of a ...

In a surprising revelation on Jan. 16 episode of "Finding Your Roots," renowned host LeVar Burton discovered a previously unknown aspect of his family tree – his part-white ancestry. Burton, who ...

Elizabeth Hoover, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, admitted that, after claiming Native American ancestry for decades, she's "a white person." ...

On Tuesday night’s episode of Finding Your Roots, LeVar Burton was shocked to discover that he’s part-white.. Burton, the renowned host of PBS educational series Reading Rainbow and star of ...

LeVar Burton just took a look at his family tree and was shocked by what he found.. The "Reading Rainbow" host appeared on the latest episode of PBS' "Finding Your Roots," where he discovered that ...

White ancestry is especially common among those of us whose families were enslaved in Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia, where the planter class was notorious for its mixed-race children.