Planning to look into your family's history as a 2025 resolution? There are plenty of ways to get started — from Ellis Island passenger searches you can do online, to digitized census records ...

We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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.

Ancestry.com is using artificial intelligence (AI) to help Black Americans trace their family trees. The genealogy company has released a new collection of searchable newspaper articles containing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...