Ancestry 3.1 iOS App Reviewed – Genealogy Tools

Ancestry.com released Ancestry 3.1 yesterday, a significant update. While I’m working on a post discussing Apple’s announcements about their new iPad (iPad 3 or iPad HD?) as well as the iPhoto and iWork updates, I thought I’d point out a nice review of the new version of Ancestry. Ben over … Read more

Ancestry 3.1 for iOS Universal

Ancestry 3.1 has been released for iOS Universal (iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch) by Ancestry.com. Ancestry is a free genealogy application related to Ancestry.com. It allows you to access your Ancestry.com genealogy data as well as use Ancestry.com on the go. Whether this is timed to coincide with tomorrow’s rumored … Read more

Mocavo Comes to iOS, Soon Android

Mocavo, Inc. has released version 1.0 of Mocavo (it had been discussed at RootsTech last month). It’s available on the iOS platform for now and it’s free. There should be an Android version in the near future, because at the beginning of February, they mentioned that they expected them to … Read more

Last Name Origin & Meaning HD Pro – On Sale

It’s for today only, but Last Name Origin & Meaning HD Pro is on sale for $1.99 US (normally $4.99) for iOS devices. It’s an app that has information about surnames – it features over 1 million surnames, 50,000 Coats of Arm/Family Crests, supports English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, and … Read more

FamilySearch Indexing on the iPhone

Ben Sayer at Genealogy Tools put together a brief overview, complete with screenshots, of the iPhone FamilySearch Index app that was just released at RootsTech 2012. It’s an application (available on iPad and Google Android as well) that allows you to help with indexing genealogical and historical records – you … Read more