In keeping with the 250th anniversary of the nation, Jamie Carter Bollich of Beaumont spoke about her dozen or so ancestors ...

STOCKBRIDGE — For Shannon LaNier, a sixth-generation descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, the woman Jefferson enslaved and with whom he had children, celebrating America's 250th birthday ...

A writer's search for her Jamaican ancestors reveals how the largest efforts yet to digitize and connect slavery-era records are transforming what descendants can learn about their ancestors. An ...

The Mayflower II and crew are making final preparations to sail north from Plymouth for its first Sail Boston appearance! The boat that was made in England in 1957 was inspired by the ship the ...

Rev. W. Douglas Banks arrived in Virginia by train carrying a hand-drawn family tree, returning to Monticello to fight for what he says is the truth about his lineage. "I have the DNA in me of an ...

As the country celebrates its 250th birthday, relatives of the first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island reflected on the American Dream. Annie Moore, a teenager from County Cork, Ireland, made the ...

Michael Le Brecht II/ABC News - PHOTO: Pictured are 10 Million Names Chief Research Officer Lindsay Fulton, descendants Jackie Smith Sullivan and Ashley Swain, "Good Morning America" co-anchor Robin ...

In a breakthrough discovery, ABC News and American Ancestors, one of the nation's largest genealogical organizations, found the first confirmed living descendants of an enslaved individual who helped ...

The first stop on the roadmap is a rework of the game’s core boss content. On July 15, the existing Hard Difficulty Intercept Battle and Void Abyss Intercept Battle merge into a single mode, ...

David S. Reynolds' book examines the twin legacies of the Mayflower, which carried the Pilgrims to Plymouth in 1620, and the White Lion, which brought the first enslaved Africans to Virginia in 1619.