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Unwrapping a commercial DNA test kit often comes with exciting hopes of discovering ancestral roots or connecting with distant cousins. Howe…

1757 map showing the location of Lewes on the Delaware Bay. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.1 Lewes (pronounced loo’-is), Delaware, is …

What does it mean to truly know where you come from? For many Black Americans, tracing family roots eventually hits a historical “bric…

Women homesteaders played an important role in settling the United States. Beginning in the 1860s, thousands of women used federal homestead…

Did your ancestors make the news? Many record groups used by genealogists are documents created under the direction of a government or …

When we think of genealogy, we often picture sprawling family trees, census records, and birth dates. But true family history is so much ric…

Each autumn, millions of people across the world celebrate Diwali, also known as the Festival of Lights. Rooted in Hindu, Sikh, Jain, and Bu…

Sports days? School lunches? Uniforms? As we approach the end of summer, children everywhere are getting ready to go back to school. Even th…