PROVO, UT--(Marketwired - Jan 16, 2014) - Ancestry.com, the world's largest online family history resource, today announced the availability of an index to more than 10 million New York City birth, ...

The Indiana Commission on Public Records has approved a contract with Ancestry.com to digitize more than 13 million birth certificates, death certificates, and marriage records, Gov. Mike Pence ...

Recently, a Westford woman emailed us to express her surprise upon discovering that many of her family’s vital records issued by the State of Vermont, including marriage licenses and her children and ...

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, ...

It’s a more difficult question than you might think, at least according to New Mexico State Registrar Renée Valencia. “In New Mexico, people think they know their name — and then they get their birth ...

In the United States, birth certificates usually consist of a Certificate of Live Birth, which is a standard form. Its purpose is to collect information and issue a recognized birth certificate that ...

Written in faded ink on the tattered, yellowed pages of a birth log, is the history of a community about to be born, literally. The booklet, which contains recorded births from April 11, 1914, to ...

DNA testing web site Ancestry has begun legal action to access millions of family records held by National Records of Scotland (NRS). The Scottish government body has refused to enter into a financial ...

BOSTON- On his mother's side, the roots of Democratic Sen. John Kerry are pure Boston Brahmin, but the origin of his paternal ancestry has always been more shadowy. For years, the Massachusetts ...