At the top of the family trees drawn in elementary school classrooms are generations of question marks. Genealogy, the study of family history and lineage, fills in those blanks. The Archives of ...

Your genes play a key role in your health, and finding out what medical conditions run in your family is important.

Dr. Fields-Black is the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War.” In many ways, the overgrown cemetery on a South Carolina rice plantation ...

Nina Jablonski was at the helm of researching skin color evolution in the 1990s. Since then, she's worked with other scholars such as Henry Louis Gates Jr. to give young students a chance to ...

Sherry Lynn Blackwell, a Las Vegas-based artist, turned her living room into a makeshift museum of her family history. As ...

Free sessions hosted by the National Museum of African American History and Culture offer visitors advice on researching their genealogy Tracy Scott Forson - Senior Editor Genealogy researchers use ...

At a Department of History Event on Tuesday, Director of the John Carter Brown Library and Professor of History Karin Wulf celebrated the launch of her book “Lineage: Genealogy and the Politics of ...

Ancestor Network, Ireland's most trusted genealogy research, advisory, and publishing firm, released a hugely expanded second-edition guide on Irish families. "Sources for Irish Family History", which ...