Only 10 years after scientists triumphantly decoded the human genome, an international research team has mapped the genes of the long-extinct Neanderthal people and report there’s a little bit of Neanderthal in all of us.
The remarkable finding could answer a question that has been hotly debated among anthropologists for decades: whether our human ancestors and [...]

Creating a family tree can appear to be somewhat overwhelming. Where to begin in sorting through all the information out there to find out just who were our ancestors and where they lived can seem intimidating. Tracing the family tree once use to take actual physical research and today families can use genealogy sites to [...]

Our ancestors would marvel at how easily genealogy research can be done today with the click of a mouse! Information that once took years of research to dig up now is found so quickly. In days gone by information was verbally passed down from generation to generation typically relying on memory. When keeping records [...]

One of the goals of family history software, such as family tree software, is to help people in families to motivate their children to learn about their forefathers and the importance of their heritage. One way to introduce children to family history is by having them write their own stories, whether it’s about their life [...]

Whenever I talk about family history software, I like to mention the fact that stories are one of the best familial and ancestral artifacts to be passed from one generation to the next. It is great when such programs can support such stories, whether it be family tree software or even in family tree diagram. [...]

An simple techniqe to encourage your little ones to participate in family history is to have them write for things they want. It doesn’t even require family tree software for them to do it. The easiest thing for young ones to write about is simply about what occurred to them that day or that week, [...]

In this final segment of this series of blog posts on family tree software I am showcasing portions of an amateur novel crafted and written by my pre-teen son, who is an big reader. It would be great if family tree software could encourage such stories. Without further ado, here is part nine:
Colton had always [...]

To continue this series of blog posts on family tree software I am presenting segments of an amateur novel invented and written by my pre-teen son, who is an avid reader. I am trying to demonstrate the point that ancestry legacies do not have to wait for people to get old and pass on. No, [...]

In this series of blog posts on family history software I am and written by my pre-teen son, who is a voracious reader. I am trying to illustrate the point that ancestry legacies do not have to wait for people to get old and pass on. No, you can get your children writing stories [...]

An simple method to encourage your young ones to participate in family history is to have them write for things they want. It doesn’t even require family history software for them to do it. The easiest thing for young ones to write about is simply about what happened to them that day or that week, [...]