For those looking to find out about New England ancestors who came over on other ships during this period, the best source of ...

American Ancestors and New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) is America’s founding genealogical organization and the most respected name in family history. Established in 1845, they are ...

American Ancestors has long had deep ties to Harvard. University Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., a member of the Legacy of Slavery initiative’s advisory council, ...

In collaboration with the genealogists at American Ancestors and the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami, we were able to identify more than 100 people going back 15 generations and discovered a wealth ...

Nationwide, more than 128,000 Native American ancestors and 4.5 million sacred objects have been identified in collections across museums, universities and government agencies, according to ...

Dr. Carolyn Carter, a historian and genealogist, discussed the challenges and importance of tracing African American family ...

In just about all of the strains of Chamorro DNA, Vilar said findings showed 3 to 4 percent of Native American ancestry. “Some were as high as 7, some, 0 to 1 percent,” he said.