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GEDCOM 7.0 Announced!

GEDCOM 7.0 is being announced this week at the RootsTech virtual conference. If you did not attend the virtual conference, you can still read all about release candidate 1 (7.0.0-rc1) at https://gedcom.io/specifications/GEDCOM7rc.html. GEDCOM 7 includes some important changes, but perhaps most important of all, GEDCOM-related activity was dormant at FamilySearch for a long, long time …

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GEDCOM 7.0 Announced!

GEDCOM 7.0 is being announced this week at the RootsTech virtual conference. If you did not attend the virtual conference, you can still read all about release candidate 1 (7.0.0-rc1) at https://gedcom.io/specifications/GEDCOM7rc.html. GEDCOM 7 includes some important changes, but perhaps most important of all, GEDCOM-related activity was dormant at FamilySearch for a long, long time …

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Very Strong Rumor: Francisco Partners Is Acquiring MyHeritage

TechCrunch is a website that often publishes news stories about online services. Today, TechCrunch published the following: “Genealogy tracking online is a big business, and today comes some M&A [Merger & Acquisition] news for one of the bigger names in the field. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Israel’s MyHeritage.com — a profitable site that …

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