One idea kept showing up this week: family history truly comes alive when we move beyond names, dates, and places on a pedigree.

When we take the time to discover who ou...

When we talk about family history, so many of us share the same quiet wish: we want our children and grandchildren to be interested. We want them to know who they are, wh...

Every Sunday night since 2016, my dad and I get on FaceTime and dig into our AncestryDNA match list together. Nine-thirty to two in the morning, sometimes later. My mom e...

When you spend years working with genetic evidence, you get used to seeing surprising patterns. But every so often, finding biological family with AncestryDNA matches lea...

When Bubba Page walked into my podcast studio holding a physical vinyl record album from the 1960s, I knew we were in for a treat. On the cover was his grandfather, Shirl...

Can I tell you a secret? My favorite part of exploring my family tree isn't just discovering the stories of people who lived hundreds of years ago (though you know how mu...

Sometimes your family tree data just sits there and stares at you. You can feel it trying to tell you something, but you can't quite hear it.

That's exactly what happene...

Have you ever stared at a name in your family tree and thought, He just… disappeared? No death record. No obituary. No forwarding address. Just… gone?

That's exactly wha...

Have you ever stumbled across a name in your family tree and thought, well, that would be cool if it were true? And then you proved it. And that turned out to be so much ...

What if the family you're born into isn’t the only one that shapes you?

I've been thinking about that question ever since I sat down with Nancy Kotz and Lynne Snierson for...