Ancestry is digitizing millions of Holocaust and Nazi-persecution records and making them searchable online for the first time ever. Anyone, not just Ancestry’s paid members, can explore the records ...

The United States, first populated by Native Americans, rediscovered by Europeans and colonized under the flags of the Spain, Britain and France, is now filled with Germans. More than half of the ...

Donald Trump is one of the most famous businessmen and politicians in the world. Yet, few people know that his family name ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Ohio has people who claim ancestry from dozens of countries around the world. Still, only 12 countries have more than 1% of people claiming ancestry, according to new census ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A British genealogy website has put Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's World War One military service records online, alongside those of more than a million other soldiers who fought for ...

I hit a roadblock in my online research. It wasn't till I traveled to Germany that the clues started to fall into place. Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, overseeing a team covering ...

SCHLESWIG, Iowa | Eight decades ago, Mayor Jimmy Schultz stood his ground at the center of Schleswig, possibly heading off a riot brought on by anti-German hysteria that gripped parts of Iowa in the ...

GREAT FALLS (AP) -- Montanans' family trees point more toward Germany than to anywhere else, according to the latest U.S. Census data. Twenty-seven percent of Montanans claimed German backgrounds when ...

German Americans make up one of the nation's largest ancestry groups, with nearly 45 million people claiming German roots. But if you want to see where that heritage runs deepest, the latest Census ...

Minnesota is stereotypically a lot more “uff da” than “oom-pah.” But a larger share of Minnesotans report having German ancestry than Scandinavian. There’s a reason German culture and institutions ...

LINCOLN BLVD — It is surprising, and perhaps it shouldn't be, that many of the members of the German American Club maintain their German accents. One might expect a room full of Americans of ...