A small group of black railroad workers at the Pitts Camp near Marlinton, West Virginia. These young men were employed by the ...

Seven descendants of former U.S. presidents will speak in front of a live audience at the Harry S. Truman White House in Key ...

The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum in Adams, Mass., is celebrating what would have been the suffragette's 205th birthday ...

Along Old Oxford Highway in Durham, North Carolina, two descendants of enslaved Americans walk sacred ground. Ricky Hart and ...

The Bolling family held prominence for generations before the Revolution and it is not as uncommon as one might think to find descendants of Pocahontas and her father, the great chief of the Powhatan ...

In 2017, I sent DNA samples to Ancestry, as well as to two other DNA companies. My parents had recently passed away, and I had some questions about my family background that I hoped the DNA might ...

At the West Virginia University Extension Annual Conference in Morgantown, Pocahontas County Extension Agent Greg Hamons, right, and Greenbrier County Extension Agent Josh Peplowski, left, received ...

Descendants of Jack the Ripper's victims have demanded an inquest following the discovery of new DNA evidence which could finally unmask the sadistic killer. The case of Jack the Ripper is one of ...

Descendants of Jack the Ripper’s victims are backing a legal application for a new inquest into the death of one of his victims, murdered in 1888. The notorious London criminal killed at least ...