This story contains links that will take you to our archives site on newspapers.com. This content is free for LancasterOnline subscribers who are logged in. Click here for more information about how ...

Tracing your ancestry back to the dawn of time can be one of the most interesting and mind-boggling experiences — and the Internet has only made it easier. Long gone are the days of trekking down to ...

The genealogy research company Ancestry has digitized millions of historical records related to the Holocaust and published them online in a free, searchable archive. The company announced the release ...

Two genealogy sites are adding troves of historical materials about enslaved people in the U.S. to databases, which could give many of their descendants a fuller picture of their families' histories.

More than seven million Pennsylvania death records now are available online. The initiative is the result of collaboration between the Pennsylvania State Archives and Ancestry.com. This collection ...