Repeating patterns in Reconstruction-era census records point to possible connections during slavery. I’m trying to determine if my third great-grandmother (from my mother’s paternal side of the ...

A few years ago, I set out on my journey to learn if there were any Patriots in my family tree.

Imagine your relatives’ bones stored in the basement of an unfamiliar university or museum. Boxes of ancestors and artifacts are often stacked on top of each other, for use in research, education or ...

(via Minute Earth) There is a point in human history where everyone alive at the time fits into one of two categories: Either they are the ancestor of nobody alive today, or they are an ancestor of ...