After my son asked about our family history, I set out to uncover my father's lineage, piecing together a family tree once ...

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 ...

Telegraph Media Group has partnered with Findmypast to bring you ‘Family History’. Drawing on billions of British and Irish ...

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 ...

October is National Family History Month, a good time to consider why we’ve become a nation consumed by genealogy. A hobby that not so long ago was associated with Colonial Dames and retirees, with ...

Studio family portrait, 1960–1970s, by Rev. Henry Clay Anderson. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of ...

PEORIA – When Linda Hollis was a child, she was told about her kinship to America’s first president with a stern warning not to tell others. Hollis’ mother, Elise Ford Allen, related the family’s ...