For many Mexican-Americans, tracing the family tree hasn't been so easy. Now that's changing for America's largest minority group as a wealth of genealogical data, including a landmark 1930 census in ...

Could knowing where your ancestors came from be the key to better cancer treatments? Maybe, but where would that key fit? How can we trace cancer's ancestral roots to modern-day solutions? For Cold ...

Some people may know where their ancestors lived 10 or 20 generations ago, but the rest of us can learn our distant biological heritage only from our DNA. New genomics analysis software developed by ...

RESEARCHING your family history can be an absorbing and rewarding hobby but, make no mistake, it involves a fair amount of work. This is not the impression, however, that you would get from the ...

The Morris Area Genealogy Society invites the public to a free presentation by genealogist/lecturer Bob Stein, “Family History Detective: Genealogy Software,” Tuesday, March 1, 2011, at 6:45 p.m. at ...

During the last few months, I've been building a family tree online at MyHeritage.com. Now, as anyone who has tried to research a family tree will know, it ends up collecting all sorts of other ...

Genealogy site hopes to raise around $75 million with its initial public offering. Launched on the Web in 1997, the site now has almost 1 million paying customers. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Genealogy website Ancestry.com is to be acquired for $1.6 billion, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. European private-equity firm Permira will buy the firm for $32 a share, the Journal ...