Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Houston-based news anchor Shannon LaNier was just a child when he learned that he is the sixth-great-grandson of President Thomas ...

In the late 1830s, two young brothers from Virginia arrived in Jefferson City -- Meriwether Lewis Jefferson and Robert Randolph Jefferson. They were purported to be nephews of President Thomas ...

Every family has its secrets and family lore, and often the inheritors of those stories can't separate fact from fiction. Yet that wasn't good enough for Gayle Jessup White. Growing up, she had heard ...