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As is often the case, money was on many people’s minds this year, but especially in 2022. With rising inflation rates and supply-chain issues, many of us have been tightening our belts and stressing about financial security—perhaps in ways we haven’t since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic or even the “Great Recession” of 2008.

That renewed money-saving mentality has filtered down to the family history world, too. Record fees, website subscriptions, genealogy conference passes, plane tickets to ancestral hometowns: The cost of building your family tree quickly

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