Genealogy is a hobby that can be packed up and taken along on your travels — especially Ireland. Here, perfect strangers really will be interested in stories of your great-grandfather Emmett and aunt ...

In the lead up to Veterans Day, you can look back into history and find out whether your ancestors served in the military or during wars. Consumer genomics company Ancestry is opening up its archive ...

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 ...

Margaret Cheney, chapter president, of the Ohio Genealogical Society’s Lorain County Chapter, will present the virtual program “You CAN find your ancestors in the Census Records!” at 7 p.m., April 10.

To find out, Inside Edition enlisted the help of two sets of indistinguishable triplets and a set of indentical quadruplets to investigate the accuracy of the at-home tests. One of the triplets, Erica ...

LaKisha David’s sense of dread increased as her turn approached. The professor had asked the students to introduce themselves by telling the history of their names. “It was humiliating, because I ...

March 2016 marks a milestone for Irish genealogy. Ten million Irish Catholic parish register records spanning the years 1670 – 1900 are now fully indexed and searchable online and will be free to ...

Code Switch co-host B.A. Parker's family comes from Somerset Plantation in Creswell, N.C. It's a site she passes every summer when she goes to visit her family farm nearby, but for years she's avoided ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...