Ken Macomber wants to learn more about what life was like for his father at the dawn of the Great Depression. Curt Witcher is looking for clues about his grandfather's younger days in Indiana. They ...

WASHINGTON -- Professional genealogist William Wood walked swiftly and purposefully into the National Archives' microfilm reading room here yesterday, just seconds after federal officials cut a red, ...

WASHINGTON - The National Archives is lifting a 72-year-old veil of confidentiality on personal records from the 1930 census in what historians say is the largest release of genealogical data by the ...

There's a new picture of the past available at the Cumberland County Historical Society, but it may take some patience to learn anything useful from it. The historical society now has the complete ...