Ancestry wants to celebrate King's Charles lll Coronation, a defining moment in UK history by offering free access to all UK records. So if you want to find out more about yourself and your family, ...

Ancestry is going to make more than two billion records free to access to mark VE Day. The family history website will be releasing all UK records, which will include those from the Second World War ...

Today Ancestry – the global leader in family history and consumer genomics – has unveiled a report into the rise of DNA testing, and the UK's search for meaningful personal connections. The research, ...

Ongoing updates to popular genealogy company Ancestry.com have sent some users into a full-blown identity crisis. Ancestry.com is beginning to roll out changes to its users' ethnic backgrounds which ...

I often think about my grandfather. Born in 1915 in the Chinese countryside to a family of poor farmers, he was the first in the village to go to university. He barely survived being a political ...

Ancestry.com has confirmed that a leaky server on RootsWeb, its free community-driven genealogical website, inadvertently exposed a file containing 300,000 usernames, email addresses and passwords ...

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. The UK’s obsession with history and more specifically with ancestry remains strong. This ...