A team of geographers from University College in London have used data from electoral rolls and telephone directories to map the distribution of 10.8 million surnames around the world. The ... Read More

Since I'm being accused of partisan politics, I thought I would lay out the questions and issues surrounding John McCain's birth on a U.S. naval base in the Panama Canal ... Read More

The ancestry of politicians always seems to interest people, but I don't think I've ever before seen the frenzy that's been brought about by the family tree of Democratic presidential ... Read More

Genealogy always seems to have a way of pointing out just how small our world really is. As diverse as their backgrounds may seem now, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ... Read More

1918 was a year of tragedy, marking both the final year of World War One and the worst infectious disease outbreak in human history. Most are aware that WWI had ... Read More

While I applaud any effort to get school students interested in genealogy, I can't help but cringe every time I get an email from a student who needs to know ... Read More

Similar to a series they ran back in 1999, the Today Show on NBC is once again running a family history series - taking each of the Today Show hosts ... Read More

One of my favorite female ancestors, Henrietta Meares, left little behind to mark her time on this earth. She was the second of three wives of Mack Crisp in Edgecombe ... Read More

Is it a C or a G? An F or an S? What did they mean by calling my ancestor a pettifogger? What month is Fructidor? Reading and understanding old ... Read More

When I learned that Ancestry.com had launched a Chinese site, Jiapu.cn, I was excited to try it out. That is until I visted and was faced with a page full ... Read More

The 2008 Southern California Genealogy Jamboree was the biggest and best ever according to attendees, and the 2009 Jamboree -- to be held June 12-14, 2009 -- is expected to ... Read More

While catching up on my genealogy blog reading this morning, I discovered that Ancestry has added some customization features to the new Ancestry home page design. It's not quite everything ... Read More

The new series of the popular British genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? will begin August 13 with the family history of Patsy Kensit, who was reportedly so ... Read More

A new Web site, which aims to serve as a central online database for UK burial and cremation records, has launched with 135 years worth of records from the Tunbridge ... Read More