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Filmmaker Byron Hurt is chronicling his family history in the upcoming NOVA premiere Lee and Liza’s Family Tree. In the exclusive clip below, Hurt and his family take on the challenges of finding out ...

Have you noticed an uptick in tracing family genealogy? Technology Review reports that more than 26 million people have used at-home testing kits to trace their ancestry. One professor of sociology ...

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 ...

I didn’t meet my father-in-law until he was 72 years old, so I never really knew what he looked like as a young man. Sure we have old, black-and-white photos of Otto Gunst, but old snapshots don’t ...

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 ...

Free sessions hosted by the National Museum of African American History and Culture offer visitors advice on researching their genealogy Tracy Scott Forson - Senior Editor Genealogy researchers use ...

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 ...

Viviette L. White, a librarian at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library, explained why it’s necessary for African Americans to seek out their ancestral roots. “It’s very important for African-Americans to ...

Dennis Richmond Jr. was a middle-schooler who took refuge in his family history, some of it very surprising. By John Leland In March 2008, Dennis Richmond Jr. watched “Roots” with his father, and 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 ...