Digital Archivist and Genealogist Gregory Pierce will teach using Ancestry.com, with or without a paid subscription, to get ...

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Tamera Mowry-Housley hears some heavy news about one of her ancestors in the latest episode of “Finding Your Roots.” When she entered the show, Mowry-Housley knew little of her family tree, beyond the ...

We explore how contemplating our heritage can make us feel more belonging, gratitude, and confidence in what we're capable of achieving. Oral historian Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz knows the profound impact ...

Persell Middle School students, Ella Demorest, McKenna Schneider and Jillian Overbeck-Thompson look at Ella's family photo book she created as part of the family project with Prendergast Library ...

I try to learn about myself from my ancestors because they are part of my wider family stretched backward in time. Once, a family member who researched our family history of patriots, ministers, ...

The month of March is all about celebrating strong ladies, so I’ve spent the last few days learning the fascinating history behind the Women’s History Month and reading quotes from powerful women in ...

Ancestry.com has released a new free database of tens of thousands of old newspaper records about formerly enslaved people. The company hopes it... This database could help descendants of enslaved ...

Uncovering one’s past can lead to emotional discoveries, and on the latest episode of Finding Your Roots, Tamera Mowry-Housely was confronted with a truth about one of her ancestors that left her ...

John Leguizamo didn't know his family tree's complexities until he appeared on "Finding Your Roots." The Colombian-American actor, 62, made several surprising discoveries while filming an episode that ...

Earlier this year, as she and her spouse piled into their Hyundai Tucson and prepared to travel the American South seeking answers about the ancestors she knew had been enslaved, Michelle Johnson ...

Layton Williams broke down in tears on the most recent episode of the genealogy series, Who Do You Think You Are?, as he learned about his enslaved ancestors. The actor and theatre star, 30, was the ...