Richard Mentor Johnson (1781-1850) led a stranger-than-fiction life. The product of a prominent central Kentucky family, he rose to greater heights than any of his kin: hero of the War of 1812, U.S.

As I write this, I’m going to go to what I’d call a “history-adjacent” conference at which I’m likely to run into far more non-genealogists than at the gatherings I normally attend. Which got me to ...

Four years ago, Angie Morgan became an empty-nester, moved from Hamilton County to Terre Haute and opened a dog grooming, boarding and daycare business. She didn’t know many people here. A client ...

Chanhassen residents working to save historic church from the 1800s.

I’m less troubled by my mother’s affair than by her decision to join a genealogy website where this could so easily surface.

A few weeks ago was Valentine’s Day. This year, more than ever before, young people spent it alone. According to University of Chicago researchers, over half of men and women aged 18 to 34 are single.

As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, Montgomery County is marking the occasion by celebrating a rare piece of American history in its possession.

While Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's engagement ring from John F. Kennedy Jr. remains one of the most talked about sparklers in history, another set of rings — their wedding bands — held just as much ...

Patrons of the Riley County Genealogical Society now have access to a much larger pool of sources, thanks to the society’s new affiliation with FamilySearch.

Almost a decade after her father's death, legal scholar Dorothy Roberts still had 25 boxes of his research that she had yet to sort through. When she moved from Chicago to Philadelphia, she brought ...

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A former CIA operative says that a recent alleged "sham marriage" scandal involving U.S. Navy sailors marrying Chinese citizens exposes a "targeted" national security threat focused on a major U.S.