News from the Genealogy industry, including the DNA testing sites and the genealogical research sites.
If you have taken an AncestryDNA test and linked it to a family tree, you have almost certainly encountered ThruLines — Ancestry’s tool for suggesting how your DNA matches might connect…
Ask a room full of genealogists who owns their family tree, and you will get a range of confident answers — most of them incomplete. The question touches copyright law…
There has never been a better time to be a genealogical researcher. That statement has been true for most of the past two decades, and it remains true in 2026…
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…
Few stories in the genealogy industry have been as dramatic, or as consequential for ordinary researchers, as the collapse and reinvention of 23andMe…
Artificial intelligence has arrived in genealogy — not as a distant future technology but as a practical, available tool that researchers are using right now…
Few developments in recent years have raised more questions among genealogists than the growing use of consumer DNA databases by law enforcement…
On February 2, 2025, MyHeritage released the most significant overhaul of its ethnicity analysis system since the platform launched DNA testing…
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…
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