DNA testing web site Ancestry has begun legal action to access millions of family records held by National Records of Scotland (NRS). The Scottish government body has refused to enter into a financial ...

It’s a more difficult question than you might think, at least according to New Mexico State Registrar Renée Valencia. “In New Mexico, people think they know their name — and then they get their birth ...

In the lead up to Veterans Day, you can look back into history and find out whether your ancestors served in the military or during wars. Consumer genomics company Ancestry is opening up its archive ...

FIRST ON FOX: The Guinness Storehouse at St. James’s Gate in Dublin, Ireland houses more than just the secrets of Ireland’s famous pillow-soft, ruby-black stout. It also houses one of the world’s ...

SACRAMENTO -- California birth records -- available online through genealogy sites -- could be used to create false identity documents, a state lawmaker warned. But even privacy advocates admit that ...

Written in faded ink on the tattered, yellowed pages of a birth log, is the history of a community about to be born, literally. The booklet, which contains recorded births from April 11, 1914, to ...

Nicka Sewell-Smith spent 20 years searching for her family’s origin. After beginning research on her roots, she discovered that the first generation of college graduates in her family were ...

'It would be nice to at least have a name,' says 81-year-old woman waiting to find out who her birth mother was Erin and Mike Merrigan, center, were college students at Saint Benedict and Saint John's ...

BOSTON- On his mother's side, the roots of Democratic Sen. John Kerry are pure Boston Brahmin, but the origin of his paternal ancestry has always been more shadowy. For years, the Massachusetts ...

More than 750,000 applications for US birth certificates dating back to 2017 were found in an unsecure storage bucket online. The records contain applicant’s name, date-of-birth, current home address, ...