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The following teasor is from the September 20, 2012 edition of Bloomberg Businessweek: Cross you fingers, and hope… A few prayors couldn’t hurt. Discovery Communications Inc. (DISCA)’s TLC is in talks to pick up “Who Do You Think You Are,” Continue reading The Learning Channel May Pick Up “Who Do You Think You Are?”
The following is a Press Release from New Heritage: MyHeritage releases breakthrough Record Matching technology for family history Discoveries made easy: Millions of MyHeritage users to automatically receive relevant newspaper clippings and historical records, adding color to their family history Continue reading My Heritage’s New Technology
The following teaser is from the September 10, 2012 edition of http://www.reuters.com (Reuters) – Hellman & Friedman LLC, Permira Advisers LLP and TPG Capital LP are bidding for Ancestry.com Inc (ACOM.O), though a deal remains elusive as the family-history website Continue reading Three Companies Bidding on Ancestry.com
The following excerpt is from an article posted in the September 14, 2012 San Francisco Business Times. Brian and Matthew Monahan’s sale of Archives.com last month was the first $100 million exit for their Redwood City-based company, Inflection LLC. They’re Continue reading Monahan’s Sales of Archives.com Just the First of Many?
The family history website, ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk, celebrates its tenth birthday in September 2012. Officially launched in mid-September 2002, ScotlandsPeople was one of the first genealogy sites to arrive on the web. The site now contains over 90 million digital records and Continue reading The ScotlandsPeople Website is Ten Years Old
The following teaser is from KSNT.com: TOPEKA, KS: The Kansas Historical Society announced that 250,000 images of its collections are now uploaded to Kansas Memory, the Historical Society’s online archives of photographs, letters, government records, and objects. Image number 250,000 Continue reading 250,000 Images Uploaded to Kansas Memory
Dwight Radford has posted a lot of GREAT STUFF since I last posted a blog about his The Journey Home Genealogy website. His last 5 blogs alone dealt with the following topics: Presbyterian Identity Prince Edward Island Archives Scots-Irish and Continue reading It’s Time to Check Out Dwight Radford’s “The Journey Home Genealogy” Irish Blog Again
The following exceprt is from an extensive article about Ancestry.com, and its potential, found at http://seekingalpha.com. Ancestry.com Inc. (ACOM) is a potential candidate for leverage buyout firms due to its cheap valuations and low debt. The company has high growth Continue reading Ancestry.com is a Potential Candidate for Leverage Buyout
The Heirloom Registry is a new way for people to collect, store, and pass down stories about their family heirlooms. The service runs as a website where anyone can “register” an heirloom, including details and a stories about each object. Continue reading The Heirloom Registry
The indexing of the 1940 census by the Census Community Project is now complete for all 50 states. And it’s FREE. The following excerpt is from the August 21, 2012 edition of Examiner.com. On August 21, the FamilySearch blog posted Continue reading The 1940 Census Community Project Completes the Last 5 States – Finished & FREE!
The following excerpt is from the August 23, 2012 edition of investors.com: Ancestry.com (ACOM) saw its shares rise nearly 3% Thursday on reports that the family history service is entertaining buyout offers. Ancestry rejected bids earlier this month from Permira Continue reading Ancestry Shares Rise on Rumors of Potential Buy-out
The following News Release is from FamilySearch.org: 22 August 2012: North American Indexing Volunteers Invited to Join New US Immigration & Naturalization Community Project More than 160,000 volunteer indexers made the 1940 U.S. Census available for searching in just five Continue reading North American Indexing Volunteers Invited to Join New US Immigration & Naturalization Community Project
The following announcement was received from Familyrelatives.com: This week sees the exciting re-launch of our upgraded and much improved Familyrelatives.com website – which is in Beta testing. It is packed with many new features and information to help you discover Continue reading FamilyRelatives Re-launches With Beta Site
I see that Ancestry.com has completed thier 100 Million dollar purchase of Archives.com – and that they lost 6% of their stock value in heavy trading today. Interesting… The following is from Marketwatch.com: PROVO, Utah, Aug 17, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via Continue reading Ancestry.com Completes Their Aquisition of Archives.com
If you’re are doing Irish and/or Scottish genealogy, and you haven’t checked out Dwight Radford’s Journey Home Genealogy blog lately, you might want to do so. He’s posted a lot of good stuff lately. I keep a daily running listing Continue reading Check Out Dwight Radford’s Journey Home Genealogy Blog