A 2015 Center survey found that 17% of Hispanic adults said being Hispanic is mainly a matter of race, while 29% said it is mainly a matter of ancestry. Another 42% said it is mainly a matter of ...

But can a single term like Hispanic or Latino describe a group with such varied ancestry and geographic origin? Mark Hugo Lopez from the Pew Research Center and Cristina Mora from UC Berkeley’s ...

As we processed the events in Washington D.C. last week, one of the unexplored and perhaps befuddling observations made by ...

One of them, 23andMe, said it had a 50% jump in new customers of Hispanic descent, while MyHeritage said it had a 20% to 30% increase. FamilyTreeDNA and Ancestry had big increases but didn’t say ...

If “Hispanic” were an ordinary ancestry, it would easily be America’s most common, well ahead of German. But it’s not. It’s a fantastically broad term whose meaning swerves and sways ...

The Hispanic Organization for Genealogy and Research is hosting the Somos Tejas conference at the Renaissance Dallas North Hotel Friday and Saturday. More than 200 genealogists, culture ...

Why does Hispanic Heritage Month start in the middle ... achievements and contributions of Americans who trace their ancestry to Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean and Spain ...

Unsurprisingly, the lion's share of Hispanic and Latinos in the Houston area trace their ancestry to Mexico, with people of Central American and Caribbean heritage accounting for most of the rest.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — People who are of European descent may be more at risk of age-related macular degeneration than those of ...

(Generally speaking, “Hispanic” refers to someone with Spanish-speaking ancestry, while “Latino/a” refers to anyone with geographic roots in Latin America, regardless of language.) ...

IT’S TRYING TO FIND WHERE I FIT INTO THE TIMELINE OF ANCESTORS AND AS ARTISTS TELL DIFFERENT STORIES ABOUT THEIR ANCESTRY THROUGH ART, THEY HOPE YOU’LL EMBRACE THE DIVERSITY OF HISPANIC HERITAGE.

Latina and Hispanic women account for 29 percent of the 24,000 new breast cancer cases diagnosed each year. Yet few studies on breast cancer have included women other than non-Hispanic white women.