Gadsden County Public Library is hosting genealogy workshops, giving residents free access to Ancestry.com and hands-on tools to trace their family history.

A Texas-based DNA lab helped get answers in two New York state cold cases this week.One was the case of Nassau County ...

Millions gathered from nearly 200 countries over 3 days to share experiences and best practices in connecting families together on both sides of the veil ...

A member of the FBI's Evidence Response Ream searches an area around Nancy Guthrie's residence in Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 11. Police say that DNA samples have been recovered in and around Guthrie's ...

Who are the Bnei Menashe, an ethnic group from India that has been immigrating to Israel? Judy Maltz of Ha'aretz has covered the community for more than a decade. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station.

Gabrielle Pitre shares census records, baptismal certificates and family photographs she uncovered while researching her family’s Catholic roots in Louisiana. Credit: Miguel Ozuna What does it mean to ...

Verifying a "Patriot" ancestor requires official documents, not just information from genealogy websites. A Patriot is anyone who aided the American cause, including non-combat roles like providing ...

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A new exhibit in Boston called the Family Heritage Experience opened in April 2025. Exhibit will "inspire people to learn their origin story—ask who their ancestors were, what kind of lives they led, ...

What was the dire wolf? Like many species lost before living memory and known only from remains, the 1854 discovery of a jawbone from this extinct North American predator was more suggestion than ...

Growing up in idyllic upstate New York, Debra Bruno never learned about the region's history of enslavement. So she was stunned, as an adult, when a historian told her that her family were likely ...

It's Spy Wednesday, almost 6 a.m. At the shipyard port in Buenaventura, the major port city in Colombia's Pacific region, the last wooden boats are about to depart for the Afro-Colombian communities ...