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

RootsTech is the world’s largest family history conference that offers workshop classes, keynote speakers and an expo hall to help people learn more about genealogy and family history.

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

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 ...

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

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – As the nation observes Black History Month, a time to celebrate the achievements and contributions of African Americans, many are also turning to genealogy to learn more about ...

If I could get every adult, especially women entering midlife, to know just five things about their family tree, it would ...

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 ...

The doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints centers on the family. Essential to our doctrine on the family is the temple. The ordinances received there enable us to return as ...

Colorectal cancer is often linked to lifestyle, but inherited gene mutations can also raise risk. Hereditary conditions like Lynch syndrome and familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) can lead to ...