Dear Amy: I am very close with my first cousin “Landon.” Landon is a robust and healthy older man. Unbeknownst to him, we are not actually cousins, in fact, we’re not related at all. Years ago, I ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on familial duty, genetic ancestry testing and privacy. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I was recently at a family gathering and, in the course of the conversation, casually ...

Ann Meddin Hellman had all but given up hope that she would learn more information about her father’s side of the family — a lineage long-believed to have been erased in the horrors of the Holocaust.