Genealogy Work and Computers

Before the 1990s genealogy work was tedious and limited to a select few who had access to hard copies of historical documents. There was vast amounts of information available in documents scattered around the globe, but no easy access to much of it. The rise of the internet and the common place of personal computers in nearly every household changed that. Thus everybody who had a computer could access millions of genealogical records and then share the information that they had gleaned from those records to the world. This ease of access caused an explosion in the number of people who are actively doing genealogical work. Technology has affected everyones life in many ways, some good, some bad; however, it has been a blessing to genealogical work.