The Decline of the Family History Center
For most of the twentieth century, the Family History Center was the gateway to genealogical research. Operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints…
Category: Industry News
News from the Genealogy industry, including the DNA testing sites and the genealogical research sites.
23andMe: What Happened and What It Means
Few stories in the genealogy industry have been as dramatic, or as consequential for ordinary researchers, as the collapse and reinvention of 23andMe…
AI Tools in Genealogy: What’s Here and What Works
Artificial intelligence has arrived in genealogy — not as a distant future technology but as a practical, available tool that researchers are using right now…
Genetic Genealogy Databases, Law Enforcement, and Privacy
Few developments in recent years have raised more questions among genealogists than the growing use of consumer DNA databases by law enforcement…
MyHeritage Upgrades Ethnicity Estimates: What’s New in v2.5
On February 2, 2025, MyHeritage released the most significant overhaul of its ethnicity analysis system since the platform launched DNA testing…
Ancestry Updates Regions
Ancestry.com has updated the number of Regions that your DNA can be associated with — a significant change that affects how researchers interpret their ethnicity estimates…