Synium Software, a company from Germany, has created an app called MobileFamilyTree Pro 1.0. It is Mac compatible. It truly is a standalone piece of software. It just so happens to be on sale right now. What more could a genealogist ask for? One of the biggest frustrations that I have faced when I’ve tried to do some genealogy research has to do with compatibility issues. There are some genealogy websites that do not work well with Mac computers. Not all of them will make that clear, however. It is really disappointing to attempt to use a search engine, only … Continue reading →

Genealogists have downloaded the Mobile app from Ancestry.com more than one million times now. This is clearly a very popular and useful app for genealogists to have. Let’s take a closer look at what makes this little app so attractive to genealogists. Ancestry.com recently announced that about one third of the more than one million downloads have happened in the past two months. Another interesting fact is that more than half of the people who downloaded the app are new to Ancestry.com. The company feels that their iPhone and iPad app are a natural extension of the current service that … Continue reading →

You may know that ProGenealogists is the official genealogy research firm associated with genealogy giant Ancestry.com. What you may not know is that ProGenealogists has some great, free information for genealogy researchers available on its web site. For example, if you have Hungarian ancestry there is a page with quite a bit of useful information about tracing your Hungarian roots. Although I do not have any Hungarian ancestors, I decided to take a look at the Hungarian genealogy resources offered by ProGenealogists because it is similar to the offerings that they have made available for other nations. I found a … Continue reading →