The following was written by FamilySearch staff:
SALT LAKE CITY—FamilySearch announced the recipients of the 2009 FamilySearch Software Awards at the FamilySearch Developers Conference in Provo, Utah. The 12 recipients were recognized for their outstanding and innovative work in advancing products and technologies that integrate with FamilySearch’s emerging suite of products and services.
The annual FamilySearch Software Awards has been established to encourage and recognize software development that benefits the family history and genealogy industry. “We are excited to announce the recipients of the 2009 FamilySearch Software Awards. The awards formally recognize the software achievements of those developers and companies that are making important contributions to the family history and genealogy industry,” said Gordon Clarke, FamilySearch Web services product manager.
The Best Features awards this year were decided by a panel of judges for the industry. The Develop Choice Awards are decided by the vote of members of DevNet.FamilySearch.org, an online community of developers. The awards were given for the categories of best Application (API) Library, Most Useful to Developers, and Potential Future Impacts.
The following recipients were announced and presented at the FamilySearch Developers Conference:
Desktop Productivity
- Incline Software’s Ancestral Quest for the “Best Listing Tool”
- Ohana Software’s FamilyInsight for “Best Standardizer”
- RootsMagic’s RootsMagic 4 for “Best Dashboard”
Desktop Syncing or Tree-Cleaning
- Incline Software’s Ancestral Quest for the “Most Comprehensive Syncing”
- Ohana Software’s FamilyInsight for “Best Person Separator”
- RootsMagic’s RootsMagic 4 for “Easiest to Sync”
Desktop Use of Media
- Progeny Software’s Charting Companion for the “Best for Desktop Printing”
Web Productivity
- US Family Tree’s Grow Branch for the “Best Web Site Feature for Publishing”
Web Use of Media
- Generation Maps for the “Best Web Site Feature for Printing”
- TreeSeek for “Best Web Site Feature for Mapping”
Developers Choice Awards
- David Pugmire’s fsapi.net for the “Best API Library”
- Ben Godard’s fs-ubiquity for the “Potential Future Impact on the Genealogy Industry”
To learn more about the award recipients and respective products in each category, visit the FamilySearch Developers Network website.
FamilySearch International is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit, FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Patrons can access FamilySearch services and resources free online at FamilySearch.org or through over 4,500 family history centers in 70 countries, including the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.