A genealogy site, in the United Kingdom, has reported a 40 percent surge in membership following the Brexit vote as people search for their Irish roots, in the hope of successfully applying for an ...

BT, the former British Telecom, has put its archived telephone books dating back to 1880 online. BT partnered with the subscription-based website, Ancestry UK, to offer a searchable database that will ...

*If you click on a link in this story we may earn affiliate revenue. EXPLORING your family’s history has never been more exciting—or easier to begin—thanks to advancements in DNA testing. Whether ...

Family history website Ancestry.co.uk based the findings on more than 34 million records of christenings and births from 1530 to 2005. Mary and John came out on top as the names that have been given ...

Two people buried in early medieval England had West African ancestry, experts have revealed, in a discovery that rewrites British history. The find provides the first direct evidence of a connection ...