Dear Prudence, When I was 4 years old, my parents divorced, and my father moved away. I grew up thinking that my b ...

The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records. By Corey Kilgannon Since online genealogy ...

NEW YORK, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Blackstone (BX.N), opens new tab is weighing strategic options, including an initial public offering or a sale, for Ancestry.com, the hugely popular platform that helps ...

Blackstone (NYSE:BX) is reviewing its options for the family-history website, Ancestry.com, including a possible sale or initial public offering, according to a media report on Thursday. The ...

Ancestry has acquired the home-movies-and-photos digitizer service iMemories, a bet by the genealogy company that subscribers who spend their money on DNA kits and pour their time into building family ...

"The registrant is attempting to capitalize on the valuable goodwill of Ancestry for its own commercial gain," counsel for Ancestry.com allege in a lawsuit accusing a rival domain of unauthorized ...

When Ancestry.com embarked on a massive project to collect nearly 40,000 newspaper articles tracing the lives of 183,000 enslaved people in the United States, the date Aug. 22, 1862, could have ...

In similar cases, ZoomInfo Technologies reached a $29.5 million settlement this year, and Whitepages Inc. paid $4 million in 2022 Many judges have refused to dismiss similar class actions, including ...

In many cultures, honoring ancestors is a cornerstone of identity and community. The stories of those who came before us help to shape our understanding of self and our place in the world. For ...

African Ancestry's co-founder Dr. Gina Paige speaks to BLACK ENTERPRISE about the company's holistic work to help Black people find their roots. Finding one’s roots can be a challenge, especially when ...

Between shows like Finding Your Roots on PBS and the proliferation of companies like 23andMe, conversations about genealogy and family history have become mainstream—trendy, even. While not everyone ...