It's 2026 and we're closing in on the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. Events are planned nationwide for America 250, which commemorates the signing of the Declaration of ...

A team of scientists has combined modern and ancient genomes to build a new “genealogy of everyone,” in an achievement that sets the groundwork for future studies into our evolution and global spread.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Wednesday a $600,000 partnership with an anti-crime company specializing in ...

Evidence of a worm-like creature about the size of a grain of rice has been uncovered in South Australia, and researchers believe it is the oldest ancestor on the family tree that includes humans and ...

The event is hosted by Sabrina Valentine of 50 Forward Mohawk Valley. The lecture is an introductory overview for those who have never used digital tools and are new or relatively new to genealogy.

NORFOLK, Va. — Digitized records are helping to clear a path to ancestral discoveries for millions of African Americans. Today, there is a growing interest among descendants of enslaved people to ...

So the notebook exhibit can be displayed to the public and to minimize the potential of identity theft, original legal documents are NOT to be included in the exhibit notebook. Instead, a photocopy of ...

In "America's Ancestry Craze," her 2014 Harper's cover story on genealogy, genetics, and the stories we tell ourselves about where we come from, Maud Newton writes that her research ("whole weekends ...