For many Mexican-Americans, tracing the family tree hasn't been so easy. Now that's changing for America's largest minority group as a wealth of genealogical data, including a landmark 1930 census in ...

Genealogy website Ancestry.com is to be acquired for $1.6 billion, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. European private-equity firm Permira will buy the firm for $32 a share, the Journal ...

TEL AVIV, Israel & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MyHeritage, the popular family history network, and Calico Pie Limited, London-based publishers of genealogy software, today jointly announced that ...

TEL AVIV, Israel & SURPRISE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MyHeritage, the leading global destination for family history and DNA testing, announced today its acquisition of Millennia Corporation, makers of ...

Genealogy site hopes to raise around $75 million with its initial public offering. Launched on the Web in 1997, the site now has almost 1 million paying customers. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Contact Kenneth H. Thomas Jr., P.O. Box 901, Decatur, GA 30031 or gagensociety.org. Genealogy has been a hobby or pastime for centuries, with some doing it for their own family and others working at ...