Savannah Guthrie is grappling with a harrowing family mystery amid the suspected abduction of her mother Nancy.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — On the third floor of Central Library in Downtown Syracuse sits a hidden gem: a network of CNY history with people able to trace family origins. “We have family histories, we have ...

Halina Tilsley was always confident she knew who she was. Born after the end of World War II, she was the daughter of a Polish woman and a British-born Kiwi soldier, a mother of two, a grandmother and ...

Verifying a "Patriot" ancestor requires official documents, not just information from genealogy websites. A Patriot is anyone who aided the American cause, including non-combat roles like providing ...

I never knew much about my father's side of the family. This became a bit of an issue when my son had to work on a family tree for a school project. I used Ancestry.com to research our family history ...

I received one of those DNA kits as an early Christmas present. What I discovered when I researched my profile online has completely upended everything I thought I knew about my family. My 6-Year-Old ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writer by day, Comic by night, who aims to inform, inspire, and amuse. According to new insights highlighted through the launch of ...

Mornings often began with Dan Russ birdwatching on his tree-lined property. On cold days, he’d look through the kitchen window in the house his family owned for generations. On warm days, he’d watch ...

Roughly a decade ago, both Dollar Tree Inc. and archrival Dollar General Corp. were bidding for Family Dollar as the rapidly growing dollar-chain industry opened lots of new stores. When Dollar Tree ...

Raymond Moore touched the screen on the large free-standing computer monitor, which led to a display showing a brief biographical sketch of a woman named Marie Jeanne. Jeanne was an enslaved "mulata" ...