Genealogy is a passion of this moment in time, fed by nostalgia and easy access to DNA testing by companies like 23andMe and family history on Ancestry.com. Many discover long-lost relatives, surprise ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Celebrating Juneteenth — the holiday commemorating the emancipation of all enslaved African Americans — often prompts many Black Americans to explore their roots. But doing so ...

Cassidy was an updates editor whose main responsibility is to write and edit articles on a range of home improvement topics. Her passion for lifestyle writing began with her editorial apprenticeship ...

How you go about researching the history of your house will depend on where you live. In most places, start with the local historical society or library. The National Archives also can be a good ...

Other than sheer curiosity, there are several reasons why people either research the history of their home themselves or hire someone like Senefeld (who is also the founder of Digging Cincinnati ...

Society has changed in monumental ways, the British historian Ruth Goodman observes, since the days “when we used scouring sand and wood ash to do the washing up”—and some of that change was “a direct ...

Since the start of the Historic House Plaque program in Foxborough, 153 property owners have taken advantage of the opportunity to learn the history of their properties with build dates ranging from ...

The National Register of Historic Places is an official list run by the National Park Service. While not every house ...

Every home has a story, and a Twin Cities couple wants to help you learn more about yours. Amanda Zielike and her husband David Decker identified that often times home history information is ...

For ten years, Sarah and Jeff Shepherd walked by the historic mansion, Montfort Hall, on their daily walk through the Boylan Heights neighborhood of Raleigh, North Carolina. The two shared a love of ...

Say you like newspapers. Or your kid never learned the value of feeling newsprint between their fingers; they didn’t wake up to daily crosswords and juicy local developments on the front porch. Isn’t ...