Cleanup has begun following this past week's historic flooding in Iowa, and many people are just beginning to take stock of what has been lost. As you might expect, many ... Read More

In the United States, people with Hispanic roots are celebrating the weeks between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15 as National Hispanic Heritage Month. The primarily Hispanic nations of Chile, Costa ... Read More

Your ancestor's tombstone may be easy enough to read when you're standing just a few feet away, but capturing its three dimensional carving and beautiful inscription on a flat picture ... Read More

After watching my local southwestern Pennsylvania community devastated by floods this past weekend, it brought home the fact that tragedy and misfortune can happen to anyone. Will your genealogy survive ... Read More

Biographer Kitty Kelley's new book, "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty," hits newstands today. Profiling three generations of the powerhouse political Bush family -- Sen. Prescott Bush, ... Read More

A new book casts doubts on a basic claim in the Book of Mormon, that Native Americans are somehow related to a lost tribe from Israel who emigrated to the ... Read More

When tracing your family tree, sooner or later you'll come to a point where you need to let go of some hard-earned cash. Whether it is for a birth certificate ... Read More

In an interesting ruling, a top New York rabbinical court has accepted compelling genealogical evidence of Jewish ancestry as proof that someone is Jewish under Jewish law. The beit din ... Read More

Some studies say that over 40 percent of the population is at increased genetic risk for a common disease such as cancer, diabetes or heart disease. Understanding your risk for ... Read More