We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

Margaret began thinking that it would be important for Rebecca to know her family history. That coincided with a family reunion, during which Margaret was given a historical document about her family.

At the top of the family trees drawn in elementary school classrooms are generations of question marks. Genealogy, the study of family history and lineage, fills in those blanks. The Archives of ...

Jonathan Wing, FamilySearch events director, has seen RootsTech grow from thousands to millions — into the world's largest ...

In a world consumed in loneliness, meaninglessness and despair, family history provides a surprising source of connection, purpose and even joy.

People who join a genealogy group find like-minded people who become friends outside of the confines of a genealogy group meeting.

RootsTech is the world’s largest family history conference that offers workshop classes, keynote speakers and an expo hall to help people learn more about genealogy and family history.

If I could get every adult, especially women entering midlife, to know just five things about their family tree, it would ...

Nina Jablonski was at the helm of researching skin color evolution in the 1990s. Since then, she's worked with other scholars such as Henry Louis Gates Jr. to give young students a chance to ...

Dr. Fields-Black is the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War.” In many ways, the overgrown cemetery on a South Carolina rice plantation ...

The doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints centers on the family. Essential to our doctrine on the family is the temple. The ordinances received there enable us to return as ...