Sewell-Smith credits her time as a journalist for her love of digging and searching for answers to burning questions, and ...

A genetic test meant to introduce you to a lost cousin could also introduce info on your entire lineage to a stranger seeking ...

We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

In just about every family, there is someone who puts together the family genealogy, the family tree. In my family, that’s my ...

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 ...

The tool we’re going to talk about today is one designed to help those who are interested in studying their family’s history. You see when it comes down to conducting research on genealogy, it’s never ...

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 — ...

In "America's Ancestry Craze," her 2014 Harper's cover story on genealogy, genetics, and the stories we tell ourselves about where we come from, Maud Newton writes that her research ("whole weekends ...

Researchers in Boston are diving deep into his family tree to connect the missing links.