People who join a genealogy group find like-minded people who become friends outside of the confines of a genealogy group meeting.

We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

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 ...