The Simsbury Free Library has planned a genealogy workshop for Sat., Sept. 22. Titled “How to Select Genealogy Software, the workshop will be presented by the library’s own genealogist Diane LeMay.

For many Mexican-Americans, tracing the family tree hasn't been so easy. Now that's changing for America's largest minority group as a wealth of genealogical data, including a landmark 1930 census in ...

Some people may know where their ancestors lived 10 or 20 generations ago, but the rest of us can learn our distant biological heritage only from our DNA. New genomics analysis software developed by ...

Could knowing where your ancestors came from be the key to better cancer treatments? Maybe, but where would that key fit? How can we trace cancer's ancestral roots to modern-day solutions? For Cold ...

We list the best genealogy tools, to make it simple and easy to research your family history and trace the roots of your ...

Family Tree Maker is a barebones resource for building family trees, but it doesn't offer any resources to help you with your research unless you link it with a paid Ancestry account. Can share family ...

During the last few months, I've been building a family tree online at MyHeritage.com. Now, as anyone who has tried to research a family tree will know, it ends up collecting all sorts of other ...

Family Historian is a good place to start building family trees, but you'll have to spend more to gain access to missing data about your ancestors. 30-day free trial. Lots of support documentation.

Genealogy site hopes to raise around $75 million with its initial public offering. Launched on the Web in 1997, the site now has almost 1 million paying customers. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...