FamilySearch Looking at User-Owned Family Trees
This is potentially huge news. FamilySearch is “enhancing its tree building features” and of special interest to a lot of us who use standalone genealogy software … Read more
Month: October 2024
Sunday Spotlight: VueScan
I’m in the midst of starting up another major scanning project – a few hundred photos (maybe a thousand) along with some 35mm film, and I … Read more
Genealogy Software Briefs – Oct 27, 2024
These are the “minor” genealogy software updates that have been released since last Sunday, October 20, 2024. Mainly bug fixes and optimizations. Note: iOS/iPadOS (iPhone, iPad) … Read more
Genealogy Assistant 1.3.9 – 1.4.4 for Google Chrome
There have been several major updates to Genealogy Assistant for Google Chrome over the past few weeks. If you’re not familiar with it, Genealogy Assistant is … Read more
Genealogy Software: Plugins and Extensions
Do you use genealogy software? If you are here, you probably do. Does it support plugins, addons, or extensions, or styles? Since the 1980s and early … Read more
Throwback Thursday: The First Genealogy Software
Today’s Throwback Thursday is going to cover one of the first two publicly-available genealogy programs. This is in fact the first publicly-available genealogy software, by John … Read more
Behind the Scenes of ITV’s DNA Journey with Ancestry
Family Tree Magazine UK has a behind-the-scenes feature and video with ITV’s popular TV show, “DNA Journey with Ancestry”. The feature/video is hosted by FT’s Karen … Read more
Genealogy Software Briefs – Oct 20, 2024
These are the “minor” genealogy software updates that have been released since last Sunday, October 13, 2024. Mainly bug fixes and optimizations. Note: iOS/iPadOS (iPhone, iPad) … Read more
Saturday Spotlight: Pedigree Thief/GDAT
Pedigree Thief, a Chrome browser extension by Colin Thomson for genealogists is a “genealogy data gathering tool”, and it does a few very handy things for … Read more