Daily Genealogist

A Hemet, California, man and his siblings discovered that their father, who had abandoned them as young children, later had a second family.

Abigail Adams held strong views about women’s economic rights. She invested money she considered her own and, in her will, “she bequeathed all of her property to her granddaughters, her nieces, her daughters-in-law and her female servants.”

Research for this season’s “Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr.,” which debuted Sunday on PBS, revealed that comedian and actress Wanda Sykes “has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.”