It's Rootstech time and as in past years there's big news in the genealogy industry. I received
an email this morning with the following announcement:
FINDMYPAST ACQUIRES GENEALOGY STARTUP TWILE -
WINNER OF TWO ROOTSTECH INNOVATION AWARDS
Leading British family history website, Findmypast, has announced their acquisition of genealogy startup Twile, creators of the visual family history timeline and winner of two RootsTech innovation awards.
The acquisition reflects Findmypast’s drive to innovate and enhance customers’ family history experience by providing them with new ways to share their family stories.
Twile enables family historians to create interactive timelines with their family memories and set them against the context of world history. Twile provides new and engaging ways of telling your family’s story via beautiful infographics and other visualizations.
Twile and Findmypast have been strategic partners since 2016 and have a shared mission of making family history more engaging for the entire family.
In the future, Twile’s storytelling features will be available on Findmypast, enabling users to automatically display their family history research in a media-rich timeline. Combined with Findmypast’s unrivalled collection of British and Irish records, these new features will enable users to share their discoveries in new and exciting ways.
The Twile team will continue to develop and maintain Twile and there are no plans to change the features and services Twile users currently enjoy. Twile co-founder, Paul Brooks, will be overseeing all future integration work and regular updates will be shared with Twile subscribers.
Paul Brooks, co-founder of Twile said: “This is a really exciting development for Twile. We’ve worked closely with Findmypast over the last two years in our mission to help families share their history. I’m looking forward to working even more closely as we develop Twile into the future.”
Tamsin Todd, CEO of Findmypast said: “We’re excited to bring the innovative experiences that Twile has created to even more customers, making it easier and more engaging to create and share your family history.”
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Thursday, February 09, 2017
FINDMYPAST LAUNCHES CATHOLIC HERITAGE ARCHIVE
It's that time of year again when the various genealogy companies make big announcements
at the Rootstech gathering in Salt Lake City. I like to think of it as Genealogy Christmas.
Today I received this information in my email from Findmypast concerning two record collections:
coming soon
Leading family history website, Findmypast, today announced the creation
of the Roman Catholic Heritage Archive, a ground breaking initiative that aims to digitize the historic records of the Catholic Church in the United States,
Britain and Ireland.
Findmypast is today releasing over 3 million exclusive records including sacramental registers for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia from 1757 to 1916 as well as for the British Archdioceses of Westminster and Birmingham from 1657 onwards. This builds on last year's publication of more than 10 million Irish Catholic parish registers.
In
collaboration with various Archdioceses of the Catholic Church,
Findmypast is helping to bring these records online in one unified
collection for the first time ever.
Exclusively
available on Findmypast, images of original documents will be completely
free to view in many cases. Fully searchable transcripts
will also be included, providing family historians from the
around the world with easy access to these once closely guarded records.
The next phase of the Catholic Heritage Archive will include records from the archdioceses of New York and Baltimore as well as additional records from Philadelphia. There are over 30 million records in just these three dioceses. The digitization of the whole archive is a monumental undertaking and, when complete, will contain hundreds of millions of records for the USA alone.
Covering 360 years of marriages from
1650-2010, when complete this landmark collection will form the single
largest online archive of U.S. marriages in history and will only be
found in its entirety exclusively on Findmypast.
The launch of these new US records is central to Findmypast's growth strategy in the U.S. They will complement Findmypast’s massive collection of British and Irish data, providing many more connections and a more comprehensive experience to family historians in the US and all over the world.
I can't wait to see what other news we get from this year's Rootstech!
at the Rootstech gathering in Salt Lake City. I like to think of it as Genealogy Christmas.
Today I received this information in my email from Findmypast concerning two record collections:
Findmypast launches Catholic Heritage Archive
Findmypast
announces plans to create the most comprehensive collection of Roman
Catholic sacramental registers for the United States, Britain and
Ireland
When complete, this exclusive collection will contain over 100 million records spanning 300 years of Catholic history
·
Millions of exclusive Catholic records published online with more coming soon
Thursday 9th February 2017
Time: 8am MT, 10am EST, 3pm GMT
Findmypast is today releasing over 3 million exclusive records including sacramental registers for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia from 1757 to 1916 as well as for the British Archdioceses of Westminster and Birmingham from 1657 onwards. This builds on last year's publication of more than 10 million Irish Catholic parish registers.
The
Catholic Church holds some of the oldest and best preserved
genealogical records ever created. However, as many of these documents
memorialize important religious sacraments such as baptism,
marriage and burial, their privacy has long been protected and access
to original copies has traditionally been hard to come by.
The next phase of the Catholic Heritage Archive will include records from the archdioceses of New York and Baltimore as well as additional records from Philadelphia. There are over 30 million records in just these three dioceses. The digitization of the whole archive is a monumental undertaking and, when complete, will contain hundreds of millions of records for the USA alone.
10 million new US marriage Records
Findmypast has also just released a
further 10 million United States Marriage records in association with
Family Search International. The new additions cover 45 states, over
1,800 counties and date from the early 17th
century up to the present day. Over 65 million records are currently available to search within the collection.
The launch of these new US records is central to Findmypast's growth strategy in the U.S. They will complement Findmypast’s massive collection of British and Irish data, providing many more connections and a more comprehensive experience to family historians in the US and all over the world.
I can't wait to see what other news we get from this year's Rootstech!
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.
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.
Friday, February 05, 2016
STILL MORE BIG NEWS FROM ROOTSTECH!
There are two more announcements from Rootstech today:
First, Findmypast followed up the news of their new U.S. Marriages collection with more that
will interest those if us with Irish ancestry. Here's part of the press release:
Leading family history site, Findmypast, announced today at Rootstech that it will launch 10 million Irish Catholic Parish Registers, one of the most important Irish record collections, in March 2016.
Covering over 200 years from 1671-1900 and over 1,000 parishes, Findmypast has worked to transcribe the National Library of Ireland’s online image collection of 3,500 baptism and marriage registers. This is the first time that the collection has been indexed with the images linked online, making the search much easier and the records more accessible. As a result, family historians will now be able to make all important links between generations with the baptism records and between families with the marriage registers. These essential records cover the entire island of Ireland, both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.
Then about an hour ago I received this email from Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage.com:
We're delighted to let you know that we've just released a new version of Family Tree Builder, version 8.0!
The new version has all of the well-known and loved features of previous versions, including sync, Record Matches, Smart Matching™, charts and more, with a totally rewritten internal infrastructure that adds support for very large family trees (up to 500,000 individuals), and delivers faster performance.
In addition to being much quicker and more responsive, version 8.0 delivers improved data integrity. It's downloadable for free for Windows, with a Mac Extension for Mac users to follow next month.
Our Family Tree Builder team will continue to enhance Family Tree Builder and evolve it in the future, adding new features and making improvements, based on the new infrastructure introduced in version 8.0. We will continue to provide users who like the power and convenience of desktop software with the ideal tool for growing their family tree and advancing their family history research, while the sync allows them to also benefit from having their data online and accessible in a mobile app.
With all these records and product releases. Rootstech feels like Genealogy Christmas!
First, Findmypast followed up the news of their new U.S. Marriages collection with more that
will interest those if us with Irish ancestry. Here's part of the press release:
Leading family history site, Findmypast, announced today at Rootstech that it will launch 10 million Irish Catholic Parish Registers, one of the most important Irish record collections, in March 2016.
Covering over 200 years from 1671-1900 and over 1,000 parishes, Findmypast has worked to transcribe the National Library of Ireland’s online image collection of 3,500 baptism and marriage registers. This is the first time that the collection has been indexed with the images linked online, making the search much easier and the records more accessible. As a result, family historians will now be able to make all important links between generations with the baptism records and between families with the marriage registers. These essential records cover the entire island of Ireland, both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.
Then about an hour ago I received this email from Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage.com:
We're delighted to let you know that we've just released a new version of Family Tree Builder, version 8.0!
The new version has all of the well-known and loved features of previous versions, including sync, Record Matches, Smart Matching™, charts and more, with a totally rewritten internal infrastructure that adds support for very large family trees (up to 500,000 individuals), and delivers faster performance.
In addition to being much quicker and more responsive, version 8.0 delivers improved data integrity. It's downloadable for free for Windows, with a Mac Extension for Mac users to follow next month.
Our Family Tree Builder team will continue to enhance Family Tree Builder and evolve it in the future, adding new features and making improvements, based on the new infrastructure introduced in version 8.0. We will continue to provide users who like the power and convenience of desktop software with the ideal tool for growing their family tree and advancing their family history research, while the sync allows them to also benefit from having their data online and accessible in a mobile app.
With all these records and product releases. Rootstech feels like Genealogy Christmas!
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