Revisions are a new way to track changes to your tree and discover new collaborators. Revisions are built on an entirely new technology that will enable some great features in the future, including the ability to undo changes to your tree and compare different versions of profiles. Today you can view a list [...]
The following news release is from Paul Nauta, FamilySearch.
SALT LAKE CITY—Recipients of the 2010 FamilySearch Software Awards were announced at the FamilySearch Developers Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. The 14 recipients were recognized for their outstanding and innovative work in advancing products and technologies that integrate with FamilySearch’s emerging suite of products [...]
The following news release was received from my friends at Arcalife.com.
Arcalife.com announces full integration with FamilySearch.org. This integration further deepens the features and capabilities between the two sites and offers members arcalife.com was established as an online community where members can preserve their family history, scrapbook their memories, and securely share rich life content all [...]
It seems that the staid British National Archives is coming forward in support of the sale of Friends Reunited to Brightsolid. The sale has been somewhat in doubt, as the “Competition Commission” has expressed reluctance to allowing the sale to go through. It’s looks like the principle reason for the support is that the Archives [...]
The following news release was received from my friend, Kia Rahmani, at arcalife:
(PRWEB) December 17, 2009 — arcalife and Firebird Media Limited have signed a deal bringing the two companies closer together in the personal and historical archiving space.
arcalife provides personal archiving solutions to its members, giving them the opportunity to store and [...]
The following announcement was received from Claire LaBeaux, Public Relations Director, OneGreatFamily.com:
Heads-up on on a CyberMonday deal for genealogy lovers! A subscription for OneGreatFamily.com is a perfect gift for someone who would love to explore other family trees and make new connections. A full-year subscription is normally $79.95. But now through CyberMonday [...]
The following News Release was written by ourFamilyology staff:
Web-based genealogy software program offers 15-day FREE trial for amateur and professional genealogists.
Franklin Lakes, NJ (PRWEB) November 4, 2009 - ourFamily•ology today announced that, in celebration of the official launch of its website at http://www.Family-Genealogy.com, it is offering a 15-day free trial to all [...]
Ownership of Friends Reunited has proved costly for ITV, but yesterday the broadcaster was told that it might not be allowed to sell it, even for a £145 million loss.
The latest embarrassment came from the Office of Fair Trading, which ruled that ITV’s attempt to sell Friends for £25 million to the owner of two [...]
Several websites have posted that FamilyLink’s We’re Related (20.4 million users) & Familybuilder’s Family Tree (5.3 million users) were suspended by Facebook last Friday night - being told that “Your application contains ads that link to landing pages completely unrelated to the content in the ad and thus are misleading.”
Here’s hoping that this mess [...]
Ancestry.com has just launched a new feature that I guarantee I’ll use a lot. Ancestry.com subscribers can now share records and documents found on Ancestry.com with non-subscribers through Facebook, Twitter & Email.
Once I “Share This Record” by clicking on the link on the right-hand column under “Page Tools,” (and choosing either Facebook, Twitter, [...]
The following news release is from Nils Schnelle, OSN Online Social Networking GmbH.
Hamburg, September 3, 2009 – Online genealogy still is en vogue. More than ten million families have created their family tree on the international genealogy network, dynastree.com, over the last two years. The number of individual profiles has reached over 95 million, and [...]
The following news release was written by dynastree.com staff.
See my comments and direct links to the Foreign language sites at the end of the news release.
Hamburg, August 11, 2009 – The family network dynastree.com features maps for showing the distribution of one’s surname for eight countries at the moment. Such maps are not only available [...]
The following News Release was received from Debra Chatfield:
brightsolid today announced it is to acquire Friends Reunited Group from ITV plc for £25 million. The completion of the deal is subject to clearance by the competition authorities.
brightsolid is a fast growing online innovation business owned by DC Thomson, one of the largest [...]
The following news release was received from Nils Schnelle, OSN Online Social Networking GmbH:
Hamburg, July 29, 2009 – The family network dynastree.com just deployed a new version which comes with several new features and improvements, such as better hinting, a variety of PDF-lists of one’s family tree, and the possibility to upload and [...]
The following news release was received from George Morgan:
Federation of Genealogical Societies 2009 Conference
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 from 5:00-6:00 PM
Statehouse Convention Center, Governor’s Hall IV
The Federation of Genealogical Societies is pleased to host an open forum for everyone interested in meeting, networking, and discussing blogging, social networks, and podcasting. Everyone is invited, beginner to experienced!
Drew [...]
