In the badlands of southeastern Mongolia, two dusty skeletons sat largely forgotten for fifty years. Dug up in the early ...

Studying her family’s history, Keonia Newton could have never imagined she was the descendant of a formerly enslaved family from Simsbury who fought in the French & Indian War, Revolutionary War and ...

I met a handful of the Agassiz descendants on a Zoom call. They had a plan to push Harvard to right the wrongs of their ancestor's actions. More than 40 of them signed a letter to the ...

At the historic site’s Descendants’ Day, the Henleys collectively continued a tradition that extends back to 1857, when their ancestors were forced onto a new plantation by their enslaver ...

The Charlestown Historical Society is welcoming soldiers’ descendants to the city as part of their Brothers of the Battle ...

Thomas Harris Collection Troutman's descendant Christopher Wilson says the U.S. Army “very purposefully and strategically” put his ancestor’s unit in charge of guarding Confederate prisoners.

American Ancestors Takes Over Harvard Descendant Research After Layoffs Since January, the genealogical nonprofit American Ancestors has led the effort to identify the descendants of people ...

At an emotional ceremony honoring victims of lynching in Montgomery County, Maryland, the descendant of one of the attackers apologized for her ancestor’s actions. On Friday, the county ...

It's very unusual and very admirable,' family member says of how clan has stayed in close contact; celebration taking place ...

With 574 tribes, countless treaties and evolving court decisions, Native American law can be a complex maze. Brigham Young ...

Members of the Descendant Community of Milwaukee County Grounds Cemeteries no longer expect to rebury the remains of 831 early Milwaukeeans this year. The Descendant Community ― an organization ...