Ancestry.com has announced new features, currently in beta testing, that allow you to better understand DNA results and your family tree. Beyond the ethnicity profiles touted in television ...

This story is our first in a series on Black family history to celebrate Black history this February. Growing up in Philadelphia, Amber Jackson said she knew so little of her history that she felt ...

Nickolas 'Saz' Davis is a writer, artist, and explorer originally from Asheville, North Carolina. It would be difficult to say where he is now because, by the time you read this, it has likely already ...

The Family Tree website, www.familysearch.org, has recently been revamped to make it easier for beginners to research their families. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner) SALT LAKE CITY — Getting to know ...

In the course of a single evening (four-plus hours) I built her a family tree going back 10 generations on one side and a tree of nearly 100 names over all sides. It is exciting and daunting at the ...

I hit a roadblock in my online research. It wasn't till I traveled to Germany that the clues started to fall into place. Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, overseeing a team covering ...

One Pokemon fan has created a family tree featuring Water Bird Pokemon, theorizing how they may have evolved over thousands of years. Game Freak and The Pokemon Company are no strangers to introducing ...

Have you ever wondered about your family’s past? Where they all came from and what their lives were like? If you want to find out, we had help! Jennifer Utley is the Director of Research at Ancestry ...

A Chicago woman who set out to learn more about her ancestry had no idea a long-hidden family secret would be uncovered. The bombshell: the man who raised her was in fact not her father. Stream NBC 5 ...