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Tracing your ancestry back to the dawn of time can be one of the most interesting and mind-boggling experiences — and the Internet has only made it easier. Long gone are the days of trekking down to ...

The U.S.C. Shoah Foundation has partnered with the genealogy giant, and an initial rollout faced a glitch. But some survivor families don’t want their histories public. By Adam Popescu Steven ...

Every day is a good day to honor the military heroes who served our country. Today, is a particularly poignant one as it's the 75th anniversary of the 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy during World War ...

If you wanted to use Ancestry for free - we have all the information that you need. The revolutionary new service allows you to search your family history and trace back your DNA so you can find out ...

The genealogy research company Ancestry has digitized millions of historical records related to the Holocaust and published them online in a free, searchable archive. The company announced the release ...

There’s a real sense lately that we’re living in unprecedented times. However, if you want to dive into the earlier times and learn about your family history, you can now do so for free. Amid the ...

Celebrating your Irish roots this St. Patrick’s Day weekend? Many genealogy research sites have made more than 150 million Irish genealogy records available for free this weekend. Here are three sites ...

Two genealogy sites are adding troves of historical materials about enslaved people in the U.S. to databases, which could give many of their descendants a fuller picture of their families' histories.

Ancestry is going to make more than two billion records free to access to mark VE Day. The family history website will be releasing all UK records, which will include those from the Second World War ...