When you trace your ancestors, you learn more about yourself, you learn more about history, and you are able to place your ...

Northern Ghana was historically a center for the trade of human lives: captives from northern communities like Nok, now part of Togo, were taken to slave markets.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., who hosts 'Finding Your Roots' on PBS, confirmed Pope Leo XIV is related to Madonna, Angelina Jolie, ...

Morgan devotes the second half of the book the practice of genealogy in the modern era, analyzing of how individuals and researchers have used genealogy for personal and scholarly purposes.

Weary of arguing with Jefferson family leaders who never accepted their claims of kinship, slave descendants started their own reunion this summer.

Gideon Lewis-Kraus on “Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers,”by Caroline Fraser, which argues that lead poisoning might have created a generation of serial killers.

As one of America's wealthiest Gilded Age dynasties, the Astor family's money and influence still make waves.

Pope Leo received an official copy of his family tree, which includes his ties to "free people of color" in New Orleans.

Mahmood Mamdani specialises in the study of African and international politics, colonialism and post‐colonialism, and the politics of knowledge production.

When King Solomon died, the Land of Israel split into two kingdoms—the northern kingdom (Israel) and the southern kingdom (Judah). Two tribes, Benjamin and Judah, made up the southern kingdom, while ...

When you open your Bible to the book of Genesis, one of the first things you may notice is how many genealogies there are in it. The genealogies of chapters 4, 5, 10 and 11 are particularly ...