Historical Marker in downtown Macon marks slave trading markets. Ancestry on Tuesday released records revealing more history of more than 100,000 formerly enslaved people in the U.S., including ...

When Ancestry.com embarked on a massive project to collect nearly 40,000 newspaper articles tracing the lives of 183,000 enslaved people in the United States, the date Aug. 22, 1862, could have ...

Members of the American Indian Program are voicing strong opposition to Cornell’s participation in the National Geographic Genographic Project, arguing that the project overlooks the political and ...

Now that the kids are back in school, it is time for us grownups to do the same. Well, not exactly. It is, however, a perfect time for us to sharpen and refresh our research skills and tackle that ...

I never knew much about my father's side of the family. This became a bit of an issue when my son had to work on a family tree for a school project. I used Ancestry.com to research our family history ...