In the lead up to Veterans Day, you can look back into history and find out whether your ancestors served in the military or during wars. Consumer genomics company Ancestry is opening up its archive ...

It’s a more difficult question than you might think, at least according to New Mexico State Registrar Renée Valencia. “In New Mexico, people think they know their name — and then they get their birth ...

The social worker said no. The judge said no. The local phone books were useless. For decades, no one and nothing could help Sue Warthen find the people who gave birth to her in the mid-1960s. Then ...

DNA testing web site Ancestry has begun legal action to access millions of family records held by National Records of Scotland (NRS). The Scottish government body has refused to enter into a financial ...

Some of the newspaper articles describe the buying and selling of enslaved people, while others offer rewards for the return of runaways. Ancestry Thanks to the rise of commercial genealogy platforms, ...