http://www.ancestry.com/
http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/
http://www.footnote.com/
http://www.genealogybank.com/
We still have the following companies left to consider:
http://www.findmypast.com/
http://www.genealogytoday.com/
http://www.genline.com/
http://www.myheritage.com/
http://heritagequest.com/
Next, we move on to FindMyPast.com. This is a first of the large companies I have considered outside of the United States. The official company description states:
Findmypast.co.uk is a family history and genealogy website. Our offices are in London, England. We’re one of the leading suppliers of online family history, with an ever-growing collection of over 650 million family history records. We utilise the latest technology to bring your family’s past to life and make the process of tracing your family history easier and more enjoyable than ever.The "official launch" of the online database took place on 1 April 2003. Since that beginning with birth, marriage and death records of England and Wales, the company now provides:
- The only complete 1841-1911 census collection online
- The most complete online index of BMDs (1837-2006)
- Parish records for baptisms, marriages and burials dating from 1538
- An extensive military records collection, which includes records from the First and Second World Wars, military births, marriages and deaths, army roll-calls, Waterloo records, Chelsea Pensioner records and more
- An exclusive collection of full-colour Passenger Lists for all long-haul voyages leaving the UK between 1890 and 1960
- Overseas births, marriages and deaths indexes
- Free use of our family tree building software Family Tree Explorer
- An electoral-roll search
Findmypast.co.uk is operated by Brightsolid Online Publishing Limited. Registered in England No.4369607.Registered Offices 185 Fleet Street, London, EH4A 2HS.
We are registered as a Data Controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998: our registration number is Z6639808.In 1995, brightsolid introduced Scotland Online and claims to be a leading UK independent provider of IT business services. brightsolid manages ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk which is a partnership between the General Register Office for Scotland, the National Archives of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon. In 2007, brightsolid acquired findmypast.com. The company has a number of "strategic partnerships" with companies such as Microsoft and Oracle.
Our VAT registration no. is GB 927 167 212
In December 2007 we became part of brightsolid (formerly Scotland Online), which also manages ScotlandsPeople.
Recently, the National Genealogical Society Conference in Salt Lake City provided the backdrop for a joint announcement by three leading players in the world genealogy market. FamilyLink.com, Inc.’s WorldVitalRecords Australasian operation is to be taken over by leading UK family history website findmypast.co.uk and run in partnership with Gould Genealogy & History of Australia. See newsrelease.
Hi James,
ReplyDeleteIan from findmypast here. Just FYI, brightsolid online publishing have also recently acquired the FriendsReunited group, including genesreunited.co.uk which is the number 2 player in the UK market (behind ancestry.co.uk). brightsolid is 100% owned by DC Thomson, the family-owned media group, and most famous for being owner of the Beano comic. http://www.dcthomson.co.uk/
This is a fantastic series.
ReplyDeleteI've had a couple of your posts in browser tabs, ready for an in-depth read, and find myself wishing for a category or label I can click in order to view all the posts in this series.
I see you've got a bunch of labels in your right sidebar, but I don't see anything like GenealogyComanies or GenealogyCos or WhoOwnsGenealogyCompanies or somesuch.
Would you be so kind as to label all the posts in this series... especially as the series continues to grow? (or, go back and put links in first to the next in the series, so I cam click from one to the next). Sorry to be such a picky, picky end user, but it's because I want to follow this series and read it all in one swell foop. I'm egotistical enough to figure that I'm not the only one. :)
Aaah. Okay. Found what I needed here:
ReplyDeletehttp://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/search?q=who+owns+the+genealogy+companies
No mention of 1837online.com?
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