Keith Tavares uncovered surprising family ties to key figures in Portuguese history. Here's how he did it, and how it can ...

Discover the heroic story of Wesley Augustus Williams, the first Black lieutenant in the FDNY, and how his bravery saved a family's legacy.

Maryland, is under fire over claims that his family had to flee the Ku Klux Klan. Speaking to Time magazine in 2023, Moore described […] ...

The next hybrid in-person and Zoom meeting of the Windham County Genealogy Interest Group will focus on “Working with Handwritten Records for Genealogical Purposes," presented by WCGIG member ...

We give people their history. Then we try to inject those stories and those people into the communities that they’re from,” the Bloomfield man said.

Among the additions are the birth record of former Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey and the death records of President Éamon de ...

The results of a recent genetic test shook me to the core. It seems that I’m not who I thought I was. Some years ago, I sent a spit sample to 23andMe. The test revealed, unsurprisingly, that I’m 100% ...

But surveys generally show that more than 75% of Americans think family history research is important, and probably half that ...

Caithness Family History Society’s February event will be an online virtual presentation by a professional family historian.

Commonwealth Court is considering a case that could determine whether digitized historical records belong to the public or ...

A local genealogy group invited residents to learn more about their family’s military history at a program at the Rockford ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...