Thanks to ancestry kits, two families in California learned they have a distant ancestor whose identity has never been found.

What did ingredients cost back then? Grow roots. Starting a family tree is a great opportunity to learn history and get to know grandparents better. Create as many branches as possible in advance ...

That makes it difficult for us to see family links because I've only tentatively identified one great-great-grandparent in my entire tree. That led me to another question: How many possible ...

In PEOPLE's exclusive first look at the Jan. 14 episode of 'Finding My Roots', Joy Behar discovered just how close her family members were in their ancestral home of Italy ...

He was just 42 years old. Bobby and Ethel have 34 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. (This is perhaps the most complicated family tree of all of JFK's siblings, because of all the children.) ...