Explore the NY State Library and the NY State Archives with experts from American Ancestors. This tour includes consultations, lectures, and meals.

A fundraising page for Brenda Lambert

A fundraising page for Brenda Lambert

A fundraising page for Brenda Lambert

World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105.

Database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers reveals who fought in the Hundred Years’ War — their lives, careers, and hidden social mobility.

Medals belonging to the victim and his grandfather were stolen while the veteran was at Remembrance event.

Nicholas Hartman of Houston died in 1944 Allied invasion, but his remains could not be identified until this year. Advances in DNA analysis allowed him to finally be brought home.

At the edge of Salem’s harbor, caretakers face a race against rising seas and intensifying storms to protect a landmark bound up in America’s literary and colonial past.

Tyler Alexander’s ‘If I Can Get Home This Fall’ shares a collection of historical letters illuminating what motivated a young Vermonter to fight in the war.

DNA testing site, Ancestry.com, has taken legal action to access millions of Scottish family records held by the National Records of Scotland (NRS).

Retired firefighter Benjamin Broadwell Hagans, 96, has emerged as an eyewitness to the savage executions of three soldiers in 1942, The War Horse reports.

British archaeologists recently discovered Isaac Newton's mother's 17th-century house near Woolsthorpe Manor, uncovering artifacts, including thimbles, buttons and tableware.

Aethelstan ruled England from 927AD and united the kings of other areas under a single crown.

The application of computational techniques can decipher palimpsests: manuscripts where the original text was removed to make room for new writing

An organization devoted to returning artifacts as a way to heal the emotional wounds left by the war is helping the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum send these deeply personal items to the writers' d...

It’s one of the Chesapeake Bay waterfront’s oldest and most compelling histories. The remains of nearly 60 early settlers were unearthed one by one from a site in Historic St. Mary’s City…

After a challenging salvage operation, the Dutch crane vessel Matador 3 has raised part of the German WWI-era submarine U16 from the waters off German...

World War II veterans participated in a ceremony at the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of the war in general. A vete...

The National Archives has recovered the volume, which includes more than 500 pages of data from March 1941 to June 1942. It had been tucked away in storage for half a century

The records will be preserved in a permanent archive - aimed at providing relatives and survivors with the opportunity to research their past in a single location.