From the inception of the United States, Black families have been displaced and ripped apart. It's been difficult to track Black lineage because of limited data and written documents that erased Black ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's 2026 and we're closing in on the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. Events are planned nationwide for ...

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Humanity’s family tree is long and tangled. Scientists sort our ancient relatives into three familiar groups: Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Each of these is a “genus”, the rank just above a ...

For 10 seasons and 106 episodes, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people explore their family history on “Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,” the PBS series that has delved ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on genealogy, record-keeping and notions of relation. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I have taken over keeping my family tree. I am fortunate that this tree dates to the ...