On SBS On Demand One of my earliest childhood memories was the story of a seafaring ancestor. My grandmother spoke of him proudly. She told us he brought the first plough to Victoria on a ship ...

It didn't change her sense of family relationships, and it also didn't dampen her enthusiasm for the detective work of genealogy. "I don't get my identity by thinking that back in 1630 there was a ...

I needed to channel my energy into something bigger, to open myself up to the divine energy of ancestors. A few years earlier, I'd taken up the practice of cocobalé, a martial art with deep ties ...

Over the years, a ridiculous hokey phrase has helped me: “Not my circus, not my monkeys.” It is an old Polish saying that has ...

I heard a chime on my phone and looked down to see an email from Ancestry.com. My fingers flew to open the email. I had been ...

I feel blessed, honoured and humbled. I feel as if I'm honouring my dad, my grandparents and all of my ancestors that left Slovakia with so little, to hope for and dream of a better life. I can not ...

This is the most engrossing month in 2024 for Indians in Singapore — or for any culture aficionado, for that matter — as Kalaa Utsavam, the biggest celebration of Indian or Indian-led ...

"I learned that in my genealogy I am evidently directly descended from Malcolm the Third. King Malcolm III, known as 'King Malcolm III - The Big Head'," he said. "I think like 'The Big Cheese' is ...

The vibrancy of the large-scale textile installations, mixed-media paintings, and colorful sculptures of Suchitra Mattai (1973–) draws in the viewer, helping the Guyanese artist tell complex ...