Two genealogy sites are adding troves of historical materials about enslaved people in the U.S. to databases, which could ...

Bringing to life family history by discovering ancestral roots continues to grow in popularity. When it comes to family, people around the Juniata Valley and nationwide just want to find out as much ...

However, a revolutionary technology — forensic genetic genealogy — could change this grim reality. Many people first heard of this technique in 2018, when investigators used it to find Joseph ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its nonprofit FamilySearch genealogy organization broke ground Saturday morning on a St. George facility that will replace the church’s ...

Step 3: Visit your local library Get a library card—most libraries offer free access to genealogy databases. Use resources like census records, city directories, and historical newspapers.

Genealogy offers a fascinating way to uncover your past. According to Family Search, “genealogy is the study of your human ancestors, their families, descendants, and the kinship relationships ...

In 2017, I sent DNA samples to Ancestry, as well as to two other DNA companies. My parents had recently passed away, and I had some questions about my family background that I hoped the DNA might ...

Two violent, stranger sexual assaults that happened more than 30 years ago in Toronto and Halton Region have been solved with the use of genetic genealogy. Bradley Britton pleaded guilty to sexual ...

FamilySearch will expand this effort to oral genealogy cultures on other continents, using its tree and search technology to build databases that will make these oral genealogies searchable for the ...

“To put it in a nutshell, you’re looking for people listed as property rather than as people,” said Hollis Gentry, a genealogy information specialist for the Smithsonian Libraries and ...

But the River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville is working to help people uncover and repair some of those voids through quarterly genealogy workshops, which educate attendees on ...

We list the best genealogy tools, to make it simple and easy to research your family history and trace the roots of your family tree. Finding your roots used to be such a taxing process.