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Get back to your roots

Reunion is a popular, long-lived, Mac-only genealogy program that can help you organize, view, and show off your family tree. Of the many genealogy options out there, Reunion tends toward the higher end, but it comes with many extras--and boasts a long, stable track record--to justify its price.

This app comes with much of the functionality you might expect, making it easy to quickly add family members (with predictive text), fill out notes and various data fields, cite source documentation, quickly perform searches, import data from other programs (essentially, from any app that uses GEDCOM files), and even run customized … Read more

The cheek is in the mail: Ancestry launches DNA testing

Ancestry.com's PR team sent me a few envelopes with cheek swabs in them the other day. These are part of the company's new service, DNA Ancestry, that uses genetic markers to locate you in the family tree of all humanity.

I had visions of my DNA fingerprint landing in a government vault to be used to finger me in crime I have yet to commit, so I did not rush to send off my epithelials. Instead, I got on the phone with Brett Folkman, VP of Ancestry's DNA product, to learn a bit more about the … Read more