Family Trees: Online, Or On Your Computer? Recently, a genealogy novice asked the question, “Which is better, a genealogy program, or having your family file strictly online?” While in my opinion I believe in using a genealogy program, the fairly recent availability of free online family trees on Ancestry might be confusing to beginners. Genealogy [...]
Ancestry.com Ends The Name Confusion
June 7, 2010 by
Ancestry Cha-cha-changes I was very happy to get an email today saying that Ancestry.com will now be the name of the parent company for all of their genealogical products and services. For two many years now we have been having to explain that Family Tree Maker is owned by Generations Network, or that Rootsweb was [...]
MyFamily Confusion With Old And New Sites
June 3, 2010 by
Years ago, when I first subscribed to Ancestry, they had free MyFamily sites. I had two of them in those days: Yates and Allied Families, and Wilkerson and Allied Families. I happily added tons of census records, photos, and any other sundry that pertained to our history. Then, MyFamily decided this was a pretty lucrative [...]
