Does your family history include ancestors who were coal miners, or lead and zinc miners? Talk with family members and ask about old family letters, photographs and journals that could provide clues.

A mile into Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon, heading east from Salt Lake City toward the Wasatch ski slopes, several concrete arches open into the face of a mountain. Behind doors designed to ...

Repeating patterns in Reconstruction-era census records point to possible connections during slavery. I’m trying to determine if my third great-grandmother (from my mother’s paternal side of the ...

Since January, the genealogical nonprofit American Ancestors has led the effort to identify the descendants of people enslaved by Harvard faculty, staff, and leadership — taking over the project ...

Imagine your relatives’ bones stored in the basement of an unfamiliar university or museum. Boxes of ancestors and artifacts are often stacked on top of each other, for use in research, education or ...

Multiple lines of evidence indicate that modern humans evolved within the last 200,000 years and spread out of Africa starting about 60,000 years ago. Before that, however, the details get a bit ...