"We don’t have to just live with the memories of our ancestors," writes author Beronda L. Montgomery. "We can physically ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland, College Park, may have captured ancient DNA from the Italian High Renaissance ...

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Grave of Liney "Lucy" Watson Osborn in Lavonia, Georgia. Watson, who married Nelson Osborn, is the sixth-great grandmother of ...

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Mornings often began with Dan Russ birdwatching on his tree-lined property. On cold days, he’d look through the kitchen window in the house his family owned for generations. On warm days, he’d watch ...

Raymond Moore touched the screen on the large free-standing computer monitor, which led to a display showing a brief biographical sketch of a woman named Marie Jeanne. Jeanne was an enslaved "mulata" ...

EXCLUSIVE: Pathway Pictures, overseen by Lauren Elizabeth Harris, has signed on to produce Family Tree, a new holiday-set dramedy created by William Shatner and Tom Bergeron. Star Trek icon Shatner ...

In this new age of modern technology, genealogy and a plethora of online heritage and ancestry sites, it's now easier than ever to trace back your roots to distant relatives from times gone by. And it ...

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 ...