Monday, April 13, 2015
This article, published at theverge.com, talks about how the Web has made genealogical research accessible to the average citizen and transformed the way it is done. The article also looks at the history of ancestry.com, the role of the Mormon church and its Family History Library, and the use of DNA analysis in genealogy. It's close to being an ad for Ancestry, but has a lot of interesting information.
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