A cousin of my father's did his family and traced them back to Robert Bradford and the Mayflower and DH has a relative who traced the family back hundreds of years in Germany and published a book. DGS has twice had to do a project on his ancestors and both times chose to use the Mayflower connection (there are millions of us related to the Mayflower folks floating around). I was using a program but got frustrated when I found that when I updated the program it started uploading info to Ancestry without my permission and then Ancestry started sending me emails that I had to access their site to look at my info so I quit.