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 ...

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 Tillamook County Library is proud to announce the launch of Ancestry Library Edition, a powerful genealogy resource now ...

'It would be nice to at least have a name,' says 81-year-old woman waiting to find out who her birth mother was Erin and Mike Merrigan, center, were college students at Saint Benedict and Saint John's ...

I kicked myself for not researching the ancestry of his wife, Rachel Doty. When I did, her descendants kept popping up ...

Ireland’s General Register Office’s birth, marriage and death indexes are now available online. The 27 million records are among the largest online Irish genealogy resource to come online to date.

Nicka Sewell-Smith spent 20 years searching for her family’s origin. After beginning research on her roots, she discovered that the first generation of college graduates in her family were ...

BOSTON- On his mother's side, the roots of Democratic Sen. John Kerry are pure Boston Brahmin, but the origin of his paternal ancestry has always been more shadowy. For years, the Massachusetts ...