Children can be hard to impress these days. It’s sometimes difficult to find a common interest that parents and kids can share–and one that will keep kids engaged. But learning about their family’s ...

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) and its Historical Astronomy Division announce the launch on 25 July of the Astronomy Genealogy Project, or AstroGen. The project’s website at ...

So the notebook exhibit can be displayed to the public and to minimize the potential of identity theft, original legal documents are NOT to be included in the exhibit notebook. Instead, a photocopy of ...

My son Joey’s fifth-grade class at Sinai Akiba Academy is participating in the worldwide “My Family Story” competition sponsored by Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People, on the campus of ...

What better way to celebrate Women’s History Month than to teach your children about all of the wonderful women in their own lineage? Gather your children and a few craft supplies and make these ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Historical Society of Pennsylvania's newest project is unearthing some family treasures. The genealogical team dug deep into ABC's Tamron Hall's family history. Katy ...

There's a popular school project that may soon be a thing of the past. There's a blog on the website Scary Mommy called "Teachers, Please Stop Assigning Family Tree Projects." In it, a mother of four ...

A genealogy-based DNA project in Maine, where 18 percent of the population claims Irish ancestry, is connecting people to their relatives in Ireland. The Maine Gaeltacht DNA Project was started in ...

Seven years ago, National Geographic launched a project aimed at using genetic analysis to map tens of thousands of years of human migration — and now a new phase of the Genographic Project promises ...

When anti-virus software entrepreneur Friðrik Skúlason teamed up with a genetics company to create genealogy website Íslendingabók (the Book of Icelanders), the idea was to map the family connections ...

Learn how to research your family history! Genealogy is the "how to" on documenting your heritage through ancestral listing. Discover where your ancestors resided, traveled, and developed some of your ...