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In modern times, genealogy became more widespread, with commoners as well as nobility researching and maintaining their family trees.

Genealogy received a boost in the late 1970s with the television broadcast of Roots: The Saga of an American Family, Alex Haley's account of his family line.

With the advent of the Internet, the number of resources readily accessible by genealogists has vastly increased, resulting in an explosion of interest in the topic.

According to some sources, genealogy is one of the most popular topics on the Internet.

The Internet has become not only a major source of data for genealogists, but also of education and communication.