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There is no doubt that when it comes to tricky problems in genealogy, two or even three heads can be better than one. More often than not, groups of people working together solve some of the most difficult ancestry problems. Those people may simply be cousins working on their joint family tree, they may be professional researchers working closely with a client, it might be through the joint efforts of a name society, or even...

Using Ancestral Atlas helps me think outside the box, or should I say outside the pedigree chart. I like maps and the new historical townland maps have given me ideas about blending information and planning next steps. Let me explain...

One of the innovative things about Ancestral Atlas is that it is designed so that you can connect up with other people researching their ancestors in the same place. Those who live near each other may well be related, but there are other kinds of relationships apart from blood and marriage ones. There are many ties between those who live in a community...

Over recent years there has been a dramatic increase in ancestry data available on the web. Commercial organisations have invested large sums in scanning, indexing and delivering bulk historical data into the public domain. There is divided opinion as to whether or not it is reasonable to have to pay for this ancestry search data, as it is, for the most part, held in archives that are paid for by the public purse...

The latest free software to add "interactive mapping" has been released by My Heritage. They join a large number of data and software suppliers including Ancestry and Genes Reunited that are announcing their mapping functionality for their software and online services. In all cases with these companies they have not...

Interest in family tree research is growing rapidly, with North America, the UK and the Antipodies leading the way. Perhaps this is hardly surprising as North America, Australia and New Zealand are the 'New World' seeded by Europe, and by Britain and Ireland in particular. The histories of all these countries are intertwined and...