Planning to look into your family's history as a 2025 resolution? There are plenty of ways to get started — from Ellis Island passenger searches you can do online, to digitized census records ...

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 ...

This week, we decided to tackle a common question that we get from people researching their roots: Suggested Reading Why Serena Williams’ Look in Her Latest Social Media Post Has Her Black Fans Going ...

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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 ...

Editor’s note: This genealogy column ran in the Jan. 7, 2001, issue of the Tribune-Star. It is said that Deep Throat advised Woodward and Bernstein to “follow the money” when investigating the ...

With Veterans Day arriving this month, there is probably no more appropriate time for a genealogist to look for information on their military ancestors. Appropriately enough, FamilySearch checks in ...

Gadsden County Public Library is hosting genealogy workshops, giving residents free access to Ancestry.com and hands-on tools to trace their family history.

A decade ago, tracing one’s ancestry was an activity associated with bored and perhaps elderly individuals who had nothing but time and tons of photo albums on their hands. In recent years, it’s ...

Ancestry.com is using artificial intelligence (AI) to help Black Americans trace their family trees. The genealogy company has released a new collection of searchable newspaper articles containing ...

Proud owners of Irish roots around the globe dream of walking in their ancestor's footsteps and finding their ancestral home in Ireland. We can tell you from our personal journeys to Ireland that ...

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Her tree was incomplete. That’s how it looked to Melissa Evans when she compared her family tree to the ones created by her third-grade classmates. Some of her white classmates ...