DNA tests can help you learn more about your family’s history and your genetic background. These tests also make great gifts during the holiday season. When we initially wrote this article, it ...

How far back can you trace your family’s lineage? Great grandparents? Great-great grandparents? Have you ever wondered how deep into the past you could go if you really tried? If so, Ancestry.com ...

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 ...

Some of the newspaper articles describe the buying and selling of enslaved people, while others offer rewards for the return of runaways. Ancestry Thanks to the rise of commercial genealogy platforms, ...

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 ...

A mile into Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon, heading east from Salt Lake City toward the Wasatch ski slopes, several concrete arches open into the face of a mountain. Behind doors designed to ...