Stories

Keerti's tree on Ancestry With the smell of her mom’s spices in the background, we met Keerti, an energetic teenager who is going places. She was interested in her family’s history, and we made a date to get her started. She set up a free Ancestry account and began building her tree immediately. She has plans to travel to India in a few months, so we did some brainstorming on what she could do to maximize her time with relatives there. App hints: Get the framework of the tree

A daughter has the forethought to ask her father about his life.

In our group, many members are 100% Indian but have no knowledge of their birth families or cultural heritage. They long to learn more...

We often think of finding more branches or trunks on our family tree and learning more about our past, but an important side benefit of...

By Himanshu. I never expected to have Irish DNA in me—it was such a surprise! But thinking back, when I was a child, people used to say...

When I was about 22, I wanted to know everything about my parents’ lives.  I wanted to record stores about them and their parents, so I...