When I was their age, I was mesmerized by stories my grandparents shared with me about their lives at the turn of the 20th ...

In early America, local governments, the courts and the clergy collected vital data like births, marriages and deaths. But these records weren’t the only tools people used to track their family ...

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Sitting at her dining room table, JoLynn Yenne sifts through over a century of family history. Family portraits, wedding photos, school report cards and handwritten notes are piled up with adoration.

"It has reverberated so much in my own existence," the Hungarian auteur shares ahead of the Venice premiere about how his family's history inspired the film. "It is almost like a Hamlet story." By ...