It's 2026 and we're closing in on the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. Events are planned nationwide for America 250, which commemorates the signing of the Declaration of ...

Evidence of a worm-like creature about the size of a grain of rice has been uncovered in South Australia, and researchers believe it is the oldest ancestor on the family tree that includes humans and ...

Othram and FamilyTreeDNA today announced a new collaboration to develop advanced genealogy visualization and relationship ...

Filmmaker Byron Hurt is chronicling his family history in the upcoming NOVA premiere Lee and Liza’s Family Tree. In the exclusive clip below, Hurt and his family take on the challenges of finding out ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Digitized records are helping to clear a path to ancestral discoveries for millions of African Americans. Today, there is a growing interest among descendants of enslaved people to ...

Becca Stanek is an experienced writer and editor who is passionate about exploring the ways we can feel better mentally and physically to get the most out of our lives. She has worked for publications ...

As part of Black History Month, a Charlotte class is helping African Americans overcome a lack of records for enslaved ancestors so they can piece together their family trees. Tracing a family tree ...

Long, long ago, when I was a teenager and a 20-something and the internet was still a gleam in Al Gore’s eyes, I used to make my way, every so often, to the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue — ...

So the notebook exhibit can be displayed to the public and to minimize the potential of identity theft, original legal documents are NOT to be included in the exhibit notebook. Instead, a photocopy of ...

“I can’t recall whether it was my mom or Granny who told me that Charley killed a man with a hay hook in downtown Dallas,” begins one of Maud Newton’s stories. “I started my research expecting to find ...

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 ...