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

Sewell-Smith credits her time as a journalist for her love of digging and searching for answers to burning questions, and said it goes hand in hand with genealogy.

BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) – New technology has allowed users to easily document important moments. But keeping track of personal ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – As the nation observes Black History Month, a time to celebrate the achievements and contributions of African Americans, many are also turning to genealogy to learn more about ...

Dr. Fields-Black is the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War.” In many ways, the overgrown cemetery on a South Carolina rice plantation ...

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 ...

Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. Stewart Ewing is an author and genealogical researcher and is an active member of the ...