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 ...

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Are you related to one of America's first immigrants? A new "Pilgrim database" from the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the General Society of Mayflower Descendants will let you know for ...

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 ...

Everyday tools and free apps on your mobile device can help you collect, translate and digitize new material for your family-tree files. By J. D. Biersdorfer J. D. Biersdorfer is the Tech Tip ...

Curious about how your family weathered previous international crises? Head over to Ancestry.com, where you can search a digitized collection of World War II records for free. The records search ...

I know I’m Irish. There are stories passed down in the family and now I have the DNA proof. What I don’t have are pictures of these Kelley and Taylor’s. Imagine my surprise to see a mention for an ...

Charles Holman had been researching his family tree for more than half a century when he stumbled upon a piece of information that left him slack-jawed. Holman, 66 and African American, had spent much ...