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Tracing your ancestry back to the dawn of time can be one of the most interesting and mind-boggling experiences — and the Internet has only made it easier. Long gone are the days of trekking down to ...

A new partnership will digitize historical records from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to help preserve them, protect their ownership and incorporate them into genealogy search ...

Two genealogy sites are adding troves of historical materials about enslaved people in the U.S. to databases, which could give many of their descendants a fuller picture of their families' histories.

FIRST ON FOX: The Guinness Storehouse at St. James’s Gate in Dublin, Ireland houses more than just the secrets of Ireland’s famous pillow-soft, ruby-black stout. It also houses one of the world’s ...

The U.S.C. Shoah Foundation has partnered with the genealogy giant, and an initial rollout faced a glitch. But some survivor families don’t want their histories public. By Adam Popescu Steven ...

The Knight Museum and Sandhills Center is more than a great local history museum, as it also offers extensive genealogy ...

The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records. By Corey Kilgannon Since online genealogy ...

Ancestry is digitizing millions of Holocaust and Nazi-persecution records and making them searchable online for the first time ever. Anyone, not just Ancestry’s paid members, can explore the records ...

What started as a simple ancestry search led to the discovery of several family members across the country, as well as the burial place of a Revolutionary War veteran in Somerset County. Lynn Schrock ...