For Patrice Willoughby, the NAACP’s policy and legislative-affairs chief, a picture is worth more than a thousand words. The ...

Discover the rich history and fascinating stories of your ancestors with the Lafayette Genealogical Society. Get expert ...

After my son asked about our family history, I set out to uncover my father's lineage, piecing together a family tree once ...

Relocating Black cemeteries in Virginia reveals how America has long denied full humanity, and how to reclaim it.

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 ...

The Hayes Presidential Library & Museums is offering a genealogy class focused on using census records to trace family history. The class, "17 Decades of Information to Enhance Your Family Tree ...

The U.S. Census Bureau has long asked people about their citizenship status, including under former President Barack Obama. The last time the decennial census came close to asking every household ...

On Aug. 1, 1790 — 235 years ago Friday — the first Constitutionally-mandated U.S. Census was completed. While those of us who love data enjoy poring over the results of each decade’s census, the ...

Ancestry has acquired the home-movies-and-photos digitizer service iMemories, a bet by the genealogy company that subscribers who spend their money on DNA kits and pour their time into building family ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Just hours after Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, a New Orleans historian began tracing the roots of the Chicago-born clergyman, and found them leading straight to the city’s ...

Accredited Genealogists Ireland (AGI) has published a guide highlighting ten useful and free Irish genealogy websites to assist individuals researching their Irish ancestry. The guide forms part of ...