Authorities trying to solve the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie say they might tap DNA genealogy databases. It's the same step that police took to unravel a series of murders in California and ...

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 ...

WILLIAMSBURG — Colonial Williamsburg’s John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library is digitizing the York County Project of over 800,000 court record entries from 1633 to the early 1800s — including nearly 80,000 ...

Ancestry.com LLC has named Derek Smith as its new chief legal officer, who comes to the privately-held genealogy company after spending most of his career in the technology sector. Smith succeeds ...

Jody Gerson is taking a seat on the board of Ancestry.com, the world’s largest for-profit genealogy company. “I’m honored to join Ancestry’s board at a time when the connection between storytelling ...

jassmine parks is a poet, professor, and flowerchild currently obsessing over softening as a means to thrive & the sacred worlds black women build amongst each other as refuge.

Dr. Gina Paige, co-founder of African Ancestry, is giving African Americans the pathway to connect further with their identity and heritage. Paige will be at the Heinz History Center on Saturday, ...

Planning to look into your family's history as a 2025 resolution? There are plenty of ways to get started — from Ellis Island passenger searches you can do online, to digitized census records ...

On Aug. 27, U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus granted summary judgment after concluding that Ancestry.com hadn't used plaintiff John Wilson's photos for a commercial purpose. In similar cases, ...

Ancestry.com is using artificial intelligence (AI) to help Black Americans trace their family trees. The genealogy company has released a new collection of searchable newspaper articles containing ...