Jonathan Wing, FamilySearch events director, has seen RootsTech grow from thousands to millions — into the world's largest ...

The world's largest family history celebration is once again bringing people together and connecting generations.

People who join a genealogy group find like-minded people who become friends outside of the confines of a genealogy group meeting.

In a world consumed in loneliness, meaninglessness and despair, family history provides a surprising source of connection, purpose and even joy.

We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nina Jablonski was at the helm of researching skin color evolution in the 1990s. Since then, she's worked with other scholars such as Henry Louis Gates Jr. to give young students a chance to ...