Need a genealogy program? Make sure you choose one that is right for YOU! They are all a little different, and one may well be better suited to you than another. Recommendations from others are great, but nothing beats being able to try a program out for yourself.

Having worked in the genealogy industry for many years now, I come across many people who have often heard of ‘GEDCOM’, but really don’t know what it is, how it works or understand the importance of it. These are points that I wish to briefly cover here …

This post was recently put on the Legacy Family Tree Blog and as it answers a question that we do get from time to time, felt that it was useful to pass this on to our customer and blog readers.

How do I activate my free Ancestry subscription that came with my Family Tree Maker program? We do get asked this question reasonably regularly, so feel that it is useful to put it as a blog post …

The Ancestry.com blog announced a couple of days ago that an update to Family Tree Maker 2010 imminent … this is now available for download to current Family Tree Maker 2010 users.

The publishers of RootsMagic have just released a new update to RootsMagic 4 (version 4.0.6.0). This update is available to those that have version 4, and it adds several new features, plus returns several reports (such as the blank forms) which didn’t make it from version 3.