Barbara Rae-Venter never anticipated that her genealogy hobby would lead to the capture of one of California's most notorious ...

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 ...

The genealogy company is releasing tens of thousands of newspaper records from the 1800s, which will be free to access, to help Black Americans research and find their ancestors.

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.

One of the method's applications is to give a more complete sense of human ancestry, says Gideon Bradburd, U-M professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.For example, when you send your DNA off ...