Genealogist Yvette Porter Moore helps San Diego's Ritchey family trace their ancestry, overcoming barriers that many Black Americans face in genealogy research.

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

Sean McCowan carries the burden on his wrist. The number of days — 14,219 — etched in silver on a bracelet. A constant reminder of the agonizing, 39-year wait between the December 1983 murder of his ...

TOLEDO, Ohio. (WTVG/Gray News) - A father in Ohio reunited with his son, whom he never knew he had, after an Ancestry.com match. Calvin Cooper, 71, and Tim Holloway, 33, discovered their relationship ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Blackstone (BX.N), opens new tab is weighing strategic options, including an initial public offering or a sale, for Ancestry.com, the hugely popular platform that helps ...

Ancestry, the Utah-based genealogy giant that helps people trace their family history, has acquired iMemories, a photo and digitization company headquartered in Scottsdale. Ancestry on July 30 ...

More than three decades ago, a pair of hikers discovered the mummified body of a prehistoric man on an Alpine pass along the border of Italy and Austria. Archaeologists have been obsessed ever since.

"The registrant is attempting to capitalize on the valuable goodwill of Ancestry for its own commercial gain," counsel for Ancestry.com allege in a lawsuit accusing a rival domain of unauthorized ...

The program will help HBCUs build their own digital archives of images, records, and more. A new partnership between Getty Images and Ancestry.com will preserve the legacy of HBCUs through visual ...

A Long Island man was switched at birth with a baby born minutes apart who had his same last name — and only learned the awful truth through Ancestry.com, he told The Post in heartbreaking detail.

Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still portrait by tracing where your ancestors moved across the globe over time. The statistical method can also be used ...