Sewell-Smith credits her time as a journalist for her love of digging and searching for answers to burning questions, and said it goes hand in hand with genealogy.

Ancestry.com, Inc. (Ancestry.com) is an online family history resource. As of December 31, 2011, the Company had over 1.4 million paying subscribers worldwide. The foundation of its service is a ...

A reader, who has a premium Ancestry.com subscription, recently asked me this: Is there any point in also searching for information on FamilySearch.org? Or can researchers assume Ancestry will give ...

Signing up for Ancestry.com's DNA test requires that you license your DNA data to them, and this data could potentially be shared by them with third parties. What's False Allowing Ancestry.com to ...

It may seem like a niche market, but genealogy research is a booming business. Interest in family history has spawned televsion shows, books, magazines, and conferences. Ancestry.com, whose main ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Would you spit in a tube and spend $99 to find out you were related to a famous 18th-century revolutionary or a notorious 19th-century bank robber? That's the latest genealogical lure ...

(Reuters) - Blackstone Group Inc <BX.N> said on Wednesday it agreed to acquire genealogy provider Ancestry.com Inc from private equity rivals for $4.7 billion, including debt, placing a big bet on ...

(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) When the pandemic isolated nearly everyone at home, our fascination with forebears ...

Ongoing updates to popular genealogy company Ancestry.com have sent some users into a full-blown identity crisis. Ancestry.com is beginning to roll out changes to its users' ethnic backgrounds which ...