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If you’re trying to trace your family tree or want to know more about your relatives, the newly-released 1950 U.S. Census data may help. Unlike other historical records that may not exist, census data ...

Seventy-two years ago, someone knocked on your ancestor's door and asked them a series of questions. Friday, all of that information will be at your fingertips. So break out the family tree and ...

It was the first census after World War II. The baby boom had begun. The Great Migration of Black residents from the Jim Crow South to places like Detroit and Chicago was in full swing. And some ...

Some of the newspaper articles describe the buying and selling of enslaved people, while others offer rewards for the return of runaways. Ancestry Thanks to the rise of commercial genealogy platforms, ...

Henry G. Cisneros served four terms as the mayor of San Antonio. Elected in 1981, the San Antonio native rose to national prominence as President Clinton’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

AI has helped Ancestry streamline its operations. CTO Sriram Thiagarajan said its in-house AI tech cut the time needed to scan public records. Ancestry is beta testing a new AI feature called Audio ...

Country music legend Kenny Rogers was 11 years old in 1950 when a census taker came to his family's home in Houston's Fourth Ward. Rogers lived at the San Felipe Court Apartments in unit 1037 with his ...