When Ancestry.com embarked on a massive project to collect nearly 40,000 newspaper articles tracing the lives of 183,000 enslaved people in the United States, the date Aug. 22, 1862, could have ...

The family history Web site Ancestry.com contains 90 million military documents dating back to the first English settlement in Jamestown, Va. Company CEO Tim Sullivan and genealogist Craig Scott ...

Nearly every week sees another newspaper headline about genetics and human ancestry, with huge datasets of DNA sequences routinely generated and used for medical study. We can make sense of this ...

Ancestry.com will release a new collection of newspaper records related to enslaved people in the U.S. that will be searchable thanks to AI, the company announced Tuesday. Why it matters ...

Albuquerque police detectives are using genealogy to solve decades-old cold case crimes. In this latest example, APD and the ...

Photographer Mark Latia has chosen to forgive the Whittaker family after being lied to in a money-grabbing hoax - as social ...

The Know Your Pet DNA Breeds & Health kit is developed by Ancestry, the makers of the most scientifically advanced DNA test ...

An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder, or a forebear, is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so ...

Family ties to both enslaved ancestors and colonial ancestors — including slave owners — can now be uncovered in free online ...

Oh, how I love fall. October, in particular, as my calendar fills with genealogy events and seminars. Like it’s a new school ...