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 ...

Family history website Ancestry said its research suggested that people only know around eight stories on average about their ancestors, as it announced it's providing free access to its collection of ...

Talk with family members and gather names, dates and places, advised Long Island genealogist April Lynne Earle.

The genealogy company Ancestry is marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day by opening up its online military records for free for three days, starting at 12 a.m. Eastern Time on June 6. The offer ends ...

Celebrating your Irish roots this St. Patrick’s Day weekend? Many genealogy research sites have made more than 150 million Irish genealogy records available for free this weekend. Here are three sites ...

Ancestry.com is offering to let you search its military database of Civil War-era records for free. You also can sign up for a free 14-day trial and search all 6 billon records for free. The genealogy ...

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 ...

Ancestry is going to make more than two billion records free to access to mark VE Day. The family history website will be releasing all UK records, which will include those from the Second World War ...

The Government-run irishgenealogy.ie website has been updated with 12.5m records of births, deaths and marriages spanning as far back as 1864 – and all are available for free. Irish genealogy has ...

Ancestry.co.uk is offering a free 14-day trial to help you discover your family’s past. Search more than eight billion historical records and 30 million family trees, going back in time to the 1500s.