Detroit Free Press

Family history seminar this week: Learn about DNA testing, public records and more

At the top of the family trees drawn in elementary school classrooms are generations of question marks. Genealogy, the study of family history and lineage, fills in those blanks. The Archives of ...

This Egyptian discovery could rewrite humans origin history; scientists say we have been looking in the wrong place

The theory that East Africa is the most likely birthplace for human beings has persisted over many years. A new find, however ...
The Brown Daily Herald

History professor’s new book explores how genealogy shaped power, politics in 18th-century America

At a Department of History Event on Tuesday, Director of the John Carter Brown Library and Professor of History Karin Wulf celebrated the launch of her book “Lineage: Genealogy and the Politics of ...
WHYY

Finding our family’s roots through the ‘sepia rainbow’

Nina Jablonski was at the helm of researching skin color evolution in the 1990s. Since then, she's worked with other scholars such as Henry Louis Gates Jr. to give young students a chance to ...
The New York Times

Black Families Can Now Recover More of Their Lost Histories

Dr. Fields-Black is the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War.” See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra ...
Business Insider

My son had to do a family tree for a school project. I went on a genealogy deep dive to learn about a side of the family I never knew about.

I never knew much about my father's side of the family. This became a bit of an issue when my son had to work on a family tree for a school project. I used Ancestry.com to research our family history ...