Two genealogy sites are adding troves of historical materials about enslaved people in the U.S. to databases, which could ...

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Ancestry websites, with their trove of records, pull us close, but not close enough. It was not the census-taker’s facts I sought, but the human stories.

The National Archives and the genealogy company Ancestry are teaming up to digitize and put online tens of millions of records from the Archives’ vast holdings. The project, announced Thursday ...

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New York City has made over 10 million historical records, which include birth and death certificates, marriage licenses and more from 1885 through 1949, digitized and available to search online.

What started as a simple ancestry search led to the discovery of several family members across the country, as well as the burial place of a Revolutionary War veteran in Somerset County.

Ancestry websites, with their trove of records, pull us close, but not close enough. It was not the census-taker’s facts I sought, but the human stories.

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Prior to 1870, records rarely noted names of enslaved and formerly-enslaved people, creating a genealogical brick 'wall.' But new records and tools are changing things.

Ancestry charges an annual worldwide membership fee of £179.99 – though it comes with a 14-day free trial. It provides access to census records for England and Wales from 1841 to 1921.