Tracing your ancestry back to the dawn of time can be one of the most interesting and mind-boggling experiences — and the Internet has only made it easier. Long gone are the days of trekking down to ...

A reader, who has a premium Ancestry.com subscription, recently asked me this: Is there any point in also searching for information on FamilySearch.org? Or can researchers assume Ancestry will give ...

(Reuters) - Blackstone Group Inc <BX.N> said on Wednesday it agreed to acquire genealogy provider Ancestry.com Inc from private equity rivals for $4.7 billion, including debt, placing a big bet on ...

PROVO, UT--(Marketwired - Mar 13, 2014) - Ancestry.com announced today the addition of over three million historical records that will help people of Irish descent explore their connections to the ...

Ancestry is going to make more than two billion records free to access to mark VE Day. The family history website will be releasing all UK records, which will include those from the Second World War ...

The popularity of ancestry and genealogical research has grown rapidly over the past 10 years. Recently called “America's latest obsession” 1, genealogical research has become the fastest growing ...