Daily Genealogist

An L.A. Times reader spotted her grandmother in a 1942 photograph that accompanied a story about Terminal Island, at the Port of Los Angeles, being named one of America's most endangered historic places by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

A woman raised in the U.S. went to Haridwar, India, in search of her genealogical past, as recorded by her family’s “hereditary priest.”

This article, adapted from the newly-published work, American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama, reports on some of the First Lady’s family history.