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

Have you noticed an uptick in tracing family genealogy? Technology Review reports that more than 26 million people have used at-home testing kits to trace their ancestry. One professor of sociology ...

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Is there anything more uniquely American than going off to discover your homeland? “It’s absolutely on an upswing,” says Andrea Grisdale, an Italy specialist who says the southern part of the country ...

When Victoria Walker bought a DNA testing kit in December 2017, it was to join her family in finding out more about their ancestry. Growing up with a great-aunt who had been the family historian for ...

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 ...

ELON, N.C. -- Your long-lost relatives could be waiting for you in a small brick room in Elon. The Elon Genealogy & Family History Center, at 712 South Williamson Ave., gives patrons access to sites ...

I hope in my last two columns I’ve driven home the point that recording your sources is an important and necessary step in researching your family history. No doubt we’ll revisit it again in the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — Identity, connection, and history. Those are just some of the values two local experts listed when asked about the importance of tracing your family ancestry. As for how to ...

Most of our Irish American clients long to be able to “walk in the footsteps” of their Irish ancestors in Ireland. They yearn to visit the hometowns in which their ancestors were born or lived before ...