On today's In Focus, family historian True Lewis recounts how she traced her family lineage to a patriot in the American Revolution. She joins us for our Genealogy in Your Genes series.

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The DAR is kicking off America 250 weekend in Washington, DC under the leadership of President General Mrs. Ginnie Sebastian Storage and her administration’s guiding theme, “Illuminate Our Legacy.” ...

On today's In Focus, family historian True Lewis recounts how she traced her family lineage to a patriot in the American Revolution. She joins us for our Genealogy in Your Genes series.

Host Andrew welcomes DearMYRTLE to the podcast, and hears about her grandmother and namesake's experiences in 20th century nursing.

Host Andrew Martin meets Dr. Wanda Wyporska, and hears about her seafaring Gt. Grandfather, and they ask for help to find a couple from Barbados

The hip-hop duo delivers its best live performance ever recorded and one of the hardest Tiny Desks of all time.

Since 2022, the program has served more than 6,000 families in Alabama.

It's time for Series Nine - as The Family Histories Podcast returns for its ninth season.

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Plötzlich tauchen sie wieder auf, in allen Winkeln dieser Welt: politische Verführer mit viel Charisma, großen Auftritten und ganz einfachen Erklärungen und Versprechen. Ihr Publikum erobern sie offen...

Full episode list from Series Six of The Family Histories Podcast, which begins on 31st October 2023.

I recently added a new feature to WATO. Here is a quick update explaining how you can use this to find Y-DNA and mtDNA testers.

A digital academic journal that publishes datasets and accompanying data articles about the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

Civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer is awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom.

YORKTOWN — Descendants of Sgt. Maj. Edward Radcliffe, a Civil War-era Medal of Honor Recipient, gathered onboard Naval Weapons Station Yorktown on Saturday, Dec. 14 at his gravesite to remember him.

Thanks to Tuskegee University alumna Charesse Evans, Tuskegee University Libraries received official designation as a Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC) by the US Patent and Trademark Office ...

The new center and hotel will open in 2025

A much needed change

At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson before the end of the Civil War.

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

This important book assesses the size and nature of Caribbean slavery’s economic impact in British society. The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy, a grouping of West India merchants and planters, became activ...

Event is first of two in December celebrating county’s past.

Five sets of ancestral remains seized in 19th century handed over by museums in Berlin and Lower Saxony Five sets of ancestral remains from Australia that have been held in German museum collections since the 19th century have been handed back at a ceremony that a community representative described as a sad but “very joyful” moment. The restitution is part of efforts by German museums and authorities to return human remains and cultural artefacts that were taken during the colonial era. Continue reading...

The Smith farm has been in their family for generations, but now a local railroad wants their property.