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In August, Ancestry.com shared 3.5 million-plus Freedmen's Bureau records dating back to 1846. The free search tool has helped Black families learn about their ancestors lives after the Civil War. "It ...

DNA profiling company Ancestry.com has narrowly avoided complying with a search warrant in Pennsylvania after a search warrant was rejected on technical grounds, a move that is likely to help law ...

Last year’s social uprising encouraged conversations about this country’s history of racism, systemic and systematic oppression of Black people in America with many now wanting to know more about ...

A reader, who has a premium Ancestry.com subscription, recently asked me this: Is there any point in also searching for information on FamilySearch.org? Or can researchers assume Ancestry will give ...

As the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment approaches, Ancestry wants you to stay in touch with your roots. The genealogy service offers a free search in 2020 so users can discover ...

The U.S.C. Shoah Foundation has partnered with the genealogy giant, and an initial rollout faced a glitch. But some survivor families don’t want their histories public. By Adam Popescu Steven ...

Planning to look into your family's history as a 2025 resolution? There are plenty of ways to get started — from Ellis Island passenger searches you can do online, to digitized census records ...