New genealogical research traces the Pope’s ancestry back to the 1500s, revealing what Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates Jr ...

The family tree painting was added after her grandfather passed, so it was fitting to make an addition to the tree when Grandma's cat passed.

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New Orleans, Louisiana, records show. ABC News has obtained several records, including U ...

She signed up for a genealogy workshop, hoping to better understand her background, and her health. What she found out was ...

On the 1900 census, while his family lived in New Orleans, both Leo XIV's maternal grandparents and his aunts -- Irma and Margaret -- were identified as Black. However, in 1920, after the family ...