The Wright Brothers test fly their aircraft on Fort Myer's parade field 2025: What's Ahead? This year in genealogy research has been momentous . Just as the Wright brothers' first flight revolutionized travel, 2024's genealogical advances are transforming how we explore our family histories. The Wright Brothers' Legacy On 17 December 1903, the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, made their first successful sustained flight. Some of the developments we've seen this year will change the amount of information available to us much like that event changed history, transportation, war, travel, and the way we humans viewed the world. In addition, we are getting tools to help us access, analyze and use that information to tell the stories of our families so they will not be lost. Before that fateful flight, we humans did not experience the entire world as being within our reach. Most of the world had rail, but to cross the oceans, one traveled to a port city and got o...