Is ancestry history? The U.S. Census Bureau is contemplating getting rid of a question about a person’s ancestry on its most comprehensive survey, saying it may duplicate a newly-revised race question ...

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For Ancestry.com, big data is about to get even bigger. The subscription-based website for finding long-lost relatives already has 6.7 billion historical records and 4.8 billion people named in family ...

Back in 1930, Tom Hanks' grandfather chased squirrels for a living, Walt Disney lived in an $8,000 Los Angeles home, and Elvis Presley's family didn't own a radio. These are just a few tidbits one can ...

It was the first census after World War II. The baby boom had begun. The Great Migration of Black residents from the Jim Crow South to places like Detroit and Chicago was in full swing. And some ...

Seventy-two years ago, someone knocked on your ancestor's door and asked them a series of questions. Friday, all of that information will be at your fingertips. So break out the family tree and ...

The Hayes Presidential Library & Museums is offering a genealogy class focused on using census records to trace family history. The class, "17 Decades of Information to Enhance Your Family Tree ...

Country music legend Kenny Rogers was 11 years old in 1950 when a census taker came to his family's home in Houston's Fourth Ward. Rogers lived at the San Felipe Court Apartments in unit 1037 with his ...

Some of the newspaper articles describe the buying and selling of enslaved people, while others offer rewards for the return of runaways. Ancestry Thanks to the rise of commercial genealogy platforms, ...

FILE - An envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident sits on a desk on on April 5, 2020, in Detroit. The U.S. Census Bureau is contemplating getting rid of a question about a ...