His mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, was born and brought up on the Hebridean island of Lewis but emigrated to New York to live a very different life.

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Te Rawhitiroa Bosch, right, canceled his trip to the U.S. due to concerns that his moko mataora (Maori face tattoos for men) ...

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On July 20, 1926, representatives of the Famous Players–Lasky Corporation, which later became Paramount Pictures, visited San Antonio to inspect Camp Bullis and Camp Stanley as filming locations for ...

Krissi Atkisson was barely a year old when her mother, Wilma June Nissen, was found dead in a ditch near Inwood, Iowa, on Oct ...

• On July 25, a presentation on researching your German roots will be given from 2 to 3 p.m.

The dozens of people who posed outside the German Methodist Episcopal Church at Buckhill Bottom probably had no idea someone would be wondering who they were some 90 years in the future.

A woman has described her amazement when her Sunderland grandad’s shipping company was highlighted on the BBC - 93 years after it went out of existence.

Gibbs’ remains will arrive at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport around 7 p.m. Friday. He is to be buried alongside ...