Growing up, my Thanksgivings weren’t just about the food; they were about the history lessons my elders shared. Make sure you ...

A genealogy group is hosting a poster board workshop in College Station to help people bring family history to life.

Family tree research has certainly evolved from combing through obituaries, census and marriage and death records, city directories and newspaper articles on microfiche at the local library or ...

The year’s best fiction and nonfiction, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

The Department is breaking off several of its main offices and giving their responsibilities to other federal agencies, an ...

After my grandmother died, there were many potential inheritors of the candlesticks who had an equal claim to that of my mother: my great-aunt Ethel, who was still alive but had dementia, my mother's ...

The AARP is a host of many great things—nonprofit, advocate, even publisher. However, for many of its members, it's also a ...

The Benton County Genealogical Society faces a crossroads as longtime president George Davidson steps down and membership remains half its pre-pandemic level.

Sometimes paradise isn’t across an ocean or hidden in some far-flung corner of the earth—it’s quietly waiting in places like Sulphur, Oklahoma, where mineral springs bubble, waterfalls cascade, and ...

Councilmember Ardy Kassakhian was slightly less direct with the state senator, first urging that she continue to work on legislation protecting small business owners from frivolous lawsuits alleging ...

Until recently, little was known about how memory functions in trees which experience decades, even centuries, of shifting ...

Elaborate tracks, vintage locomotives and quaint villages — train displays can evoke feelings of wonder in young and old ...