For those looking to find out about New England ancestors who came over on other ships during this period, the best source of ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope's past in New York Times Magazine piece.

According to Gates Jr., Pope Leo is also related to Boucher de Grandpre, who fought against the British during the ...

The Catholic Church leader is also linked to Angelina Jolie and Hillary Clinton, according to The New York Times.

a computational biologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and an author of the study. Before the bottleneck, the scientists concluded, the population of our ancestors ...

The New York State Office of Vital Records, responsible for handling genealogy requests, is facing a significant backlog, with 10,831 requests currently pending as of November 18. This backlog has ...

Ribeiro for New York Daily News) Trump is a gifted storyteller ... to contribute stories of their Scottish and German and Irish ancestors — and their wives, of their Slovenian and Indian ...

For Representative Gregory Meeks, a Black congressman who represents a district in Queens, New York, the search for his ancestors continues. The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee ...