Free Genealogy Software

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is now offering the public free downloads of its top-selling genealogical software program, Personal Ancestral File 4.0.

Anyone interested in starting research into a family tree is invited to visit https://www.familysearch.org and download the Windows-based program. Although the software does not provide genealogical data, it can produce records for family histories and logs to help people search for missing ancestors.