Coast Place

02/07/2026

A free podcast series from the Observer. Journalist Lucy Greenwell goes in search of Jess following rumours and unanswered questions about where she was born and who gave birth to her.

01/06/2026

Genealogy is often viewed as the study of family history, names, dates, and ancestral connections. Yet for many people, especially those approaching the end of life, genealogy becomes something muc…

26/05/2026

By 1533, Anne had married Henry VIII and was crowned queen. She gave birth that same year to the future Elizabeth I, but failed to produce a surviving male heir. This failure, in the context of Tudor anxieties about succession, began to erode her position.

27/03/2026

The wait is nearly over!

The 1926 Census of Ireland was taken on Sunday, 18 April 1926 and exactly 100 years later, the records will finally be made available online.

📅 Release date: Saturday, 18 April 2026
🔎 The records will be fully searchable online from that day.

For many people researching their Irish ancestry, this census will open up an entirely new window into family history.

Have questions about the 1926 Census? Drop them below!

08/03/2026

A search in Sri Lanka for two adoptees

Adopted as babies and raised thousands of miles from where they were born, two women embark on an emotional journey back to Sri Lanka — the country of their ...

05/03/2026

Shared cm chart for your DNA

05/03/2026

In the spring of 1859, on a stretch of land outside Savannah, Georgia the rain fell steadily for two days. The ground turned to mud beneath hundreds of waiting feet, and the sky hung low and gray over Ten Broeck Race Course. What happened there would later be remembered as the “Weeping Time,” one of the largest slave auctions in the history of the United States.

The rain fell down over Savannah

16/12/2025

Yass!
TGIF!!!

06/12/2025

In this video published many years ago, ancestry shows the wonderful legacy of knowing your DNA..

Learn more about AncestryDNA: http://ancestry.com/s55735/t32468/rd.ashx. Ancestry is proud to work with momondo's DNA Journey to help show the world that the...

05/12/2025

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The Last Universal Common Ancestor