When meeting people and the subject of “what do you do for a living” comes up, there’s an interesting mix of reactions.The most popular response is a polite, “Oh...
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Searching for your African heritage is a two-step process. The first step, beginning the search and looking through recent records, is similar to the research efforts...
Read moreMormons Expand Free Access to Genealogy Records for Researchers
There has never been a better time to research a family tree because of the free access to billions of records offered by Mormon Family History Libraries around the...
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Years from now, descendants of African-American Staten Islanders will have easy access to the narratives of their ancestors thanks to the efforts of StoryCorps Griot...
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Armen Afrikyan, a historian-lawyer by training, explains what importance a family tree has for Armenians and shows the family tree of the well-known dynasty of the...
Read moreMeet South Florida’s detective of death
Looking for details about your great-grandfather’s death 45 years ago? Searching for survivors of the friendly neighbor who died without a will? Can’t...
Read moreOnline Sites Offer Peek Into The Past
It is the time of year when families travel to be together, share meals and sit around swapping stories about childhood, relatives who’ve passed away and what...
Read moreFamilySearch, Generations Network announce agreement
FamilySearch and The Generations Network Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com, have announced an agreement that provides free access to Ancestry.com for patrons of...
Read moreCommunity members open archives of forgotten slave town
One of the nation’s oldest black communities where slaves and their descendants have lived for two centuries is writing its own history books.The long-forgotten...
Read moreLiving In The Past: History Center Lets The Genealogy Out Of The Bottle
Sandra Haxton has gone back with the Sparkman family to Ireland in the late 1600s.Judy Kelley has tracked the Holbrooks into the mid- to late 16th century. As...
Read moreWatson’s DNA reveals some African ancestry
News that geneticist James Watson inherited 16 percent of his DNA from an African ancestor may provide the Nobel Prize winner with a new perspective on his ancestry...
Read moreBlack Britons find their African roots
Beaula McCalla, a youth worker from the UK town of Bristol, never imagined that she would one day meet her relatives in Equatorial Guinea, 6,500 km away. “It...
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