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

On June 11, 2024, Ancestry announced the publication of a free collection of 38,000 newspaper articles related to more than 183,000 enslaved people in the U.S. from… ...

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.

If so, Ancestry.com wants to help. With their expansive database of public records dating back centuries, they claim to aid users in finding […] Skip to content ...

In a Fox News Digital exclusive, Ancestry.com and Guinness brewery release 1.6 million records on March 8 that could impact the family history of millions of Irish Americans.

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.

Through Ancestry, people will be able to tap into scanned documents from that era such as military draft cards, photographs from WWII and 1940s and ’50s Census records.Most of them will be ...

Ancestry Genealogy reviewHow far back can you trace your family’s lineage? Great grandparents? Great-great grandparents? Have you ever wondered how deep into the past you could go if you really ...