Famous Profiles
New study links the famous “Habsburg Jaw” to inbreeding, further confirming the idea that inter-family marriages weaken bloodlines by decreasing genetic diversity.
It’s been 100 years since the Bolsheviks executed Tsar Nicholas II and his entire family. Will the Russian Orthodox Church finally recognize their remains, and bury them with full rites?
Why new DNA evidence won’t prove King Richard III was guilty of murdering the ‘Princes in the Tower.’
The French Revolution marked the end of the monarchy when King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were found guilty of high treason and executed.
Richard III was the King of England from July 6, 1483 until his death in 1485 at 32 years of age.
Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte) was the first Emperor of the French, rising to power on May 18, 1804.
The Romanov family was the last imperial family of Russia.
Genghis Khan was a world-renowned 13th century Mongol Emperor. Khan is known to most for his brutality and bloodthirsty conquests...
Nicolaus Copernicus was a renowned astronomer and mathematician from the Renaissance period.
Niall Noigiallach aka “Niall of the Nine Hostages” was one of the greatest Irish kings. He ruled Ireland in the fifth century and was said to have consolidated his power by leading raids on the Roman Empire
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With an estimate of 26 million people having taken a DNA ancestry test, genetic genealogy has really taken off in the last couple of years.
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