For my entire life, I've always known that a certain family member of mine (okay fine, my grandad) had a... shady past. And like all older folk from the east end of London, stories of him rubbing ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on genealogy, record-keeping and notions of relation. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I have taken over keeping my family tree. I am fortunate that this tree dates to the ...

When my daughter announced a school family tree project, I felt exhausted from the years I’d spent searching and all the unanswered questions I had. We all pay the price of closed adoption: a lifetime ...