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Saturday, February 06, 2016

THERE'S MORE BIG NEWS FROM ROOTSTECH!

It's certainly been interesting opening my email the past few days to find new announcements from the genealogy companies at Rootstech. Today it is a press release from Findmypast about partnering up with a number of genealogy software providers:

FINDMYPAST ANNOUNCES A RAFT OF NEW PARTNERSHIPS
AS PART OF ITS U.S. GROWTH STRATEGY


Salt Lake City: 6 February 2016


Time: 7am MT, 9am EST, 2pm GMT


Leading family history site, Findmypast announced today at RootsTech a range of new global partnerships with leading technology providers. This will further strengthen its reach in the U. S. as well as U.K. markets.


The raft of new partnerships include deals with RootsMagic, Legacy Family Tree, FamilySearch, Family-Historian, Puzzilla, Billion Graves and RootsCity. Findmypast will make its vast record collection of more than 8 billion records available to customers via these partners. The rollout of these partnerships will begin in 2016, with exact dates to be detailed later.


Customers using these various family history products will benefit from having Findmypast’s record collection embedded within the actual product in ways that each partner determines will benefit their customers most.  Adding to the excitement, Findmypast also announced that in 2016 it will build on its extensive British and Irish data base by adding hundreds of millions of new U.S. records including the most comprehensive collection of US marriage records available anywhere.


I have some thoughts about this:
-It seems like the smaller genealogy companies are banding together to give Ancestry a run for its money.

-Since I'm a RootsMagic user I'll be interesting to see how this will work.

-I'm not attending Rootstech but from afar it seems like RootsMagic and Findmypast have made the biggest splashes this year.  

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