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 ...

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.

New Orleans genealogist Jari C. Honora confirmed the pope’s ancestry and her findings were published in a May 10 article in the New York Times. “Thanks to the brilliant detective work of Jari ...