Genealogy News

Rapper Nas was shocked to discover his ancestors were sold as slaves in 1859 during his appearance on a genealogy Tv show.

A GENEALOGIST with a keen interest in celebrity family trees has traced the ancestors of one of the nation's most famous comedy performers to an area of rural Dorset.

Most of Vladimir Paley's clients want him to dig up their family history with one goal in mind: making a case to obtain foreign citizenship and leave Russia.

A.J. Jacobs, an author and Esquire Editor at Large, joined HuffPost Live host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani to discuss this potentially uncomfortable scenario.

Dan Bucatinsky is no longer on "Scandal" after his character, James Novak, was murdered, but the actor is still in touch with his former co-stars, including former gladiator Columbus Short.

Six months after publishing his family memoir "22 Cottage Place" -- a book about his family and growing up in Tarrytown -- Peter Barbella Jr. is already working on the sequel.

What's new? What's hot? What's next? TLC's celebrity genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? doesn't give a hoot about the zeitgeist - certainly not when the past is so damn dramatic! Executive producer Lisa Kudrow gives the scoop on the new season , kicking off tonight with a former Sex and the City star making a horrifying discovery.

The Athens-Clarke County Library's Heritage Room will host a workshop 6-8 p.m. Tuesday to teach patrons how to use FamilySearch, the world's largest repository of free genealogical records.

Family trees are comprised of all of your direct ancestors, such as your parents, grandparents and so on.

TO mark the centenary of Australia's involvement in World War 1, Monaro Regional Librar-ies and local family history volunteers will hold a special photographic exhibition at Bombala Library during Family History Month in August.

What he found buried under the sand that April afternoon opened a gateway to an experience lived more than 70 years ago from 6,000 miles away, in a place he had never heard of called Whitefish Bay.

I am searching for any information about, birth mother, Father, or Siblings only information I have currently is about birth mother.

Sensitive information about living individuals, such as birth dates and maiden names, was available on Irishgenealogy.ie site until last week.

The site may have only launched its civil records search facility on July 3, but it was shut down on Friday over fears that people's personal data could be exploited.

President Henry B. Eyring, first Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, stands outside the Salt Lake Temple.

An inveterate historian, author and former resident of the Upper Rogue, Barbara Hegne had long heard stories of her black, slave ancestors who interbred with their white plantation masters in North Carolina, were freed and migrated across to country to farm around Butte Falls.

Larry O'Hara, left, from Waterford with his World War 1 medals that were returned to him by collector Gordon Power from Glenmore, Co Kilkenny.

A day camp is underway at the local genealogy museum. These day campers are learning about the past, specifically their own ancestors.

I am looking for birth parent Dorothy Ann Rogers. Dorothy would be about 77 now, perhaps with another surname if married.

It's easy to confuse them with services that sell generic information about last names and even coats of arms with dubious scholarship.