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 ...

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 ...

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A reader, who has a premium Ancestry.com subscription, recently asked me this: Is there any point in also searching for information on FamilySearch.org? Or can researchers assume Ancestry will give ...

On the surface, it seems like a simple question. But, for millions of Black people, the answer often only goes so deep. Improvements in ancestry search resources and DNA testing are helping provide a ...

I grew up in a little Norwegian fishing community that was absorbed into Seattle proper. Just about every family that wasn’t pure Norwegian liked to boast about having an Indian princess in their ...

Learning about your heritage can be enlightening, but beginning the process can be challenging. Asking relatives for all the family names they can recall is a great way to start. You can also record ...

When Sacramento police captured Joseph James DeAngelo, accused of being the notorious “Golden State Killer,” their chief described the event as a “perfectly executed arrest.” The episode drew ...

For more than a century, many people of Irish descent have faced a daunting predicament when searching for details about their families’ pasts. A 1922 fire at the Public Records Office in Dublin at ...