You may see accounts that Ancestry was started by two graduates of the Mormon-owned Brigham Young University. Allen and his business partner would acquire the Ancestry. But the story of Ancestry starts a little earlier. In , three men founded a company to produce genealogical books and magazines.
John Sittner, W. Rex Sittner, and Robert Shaw named the company Ancestry, inc. In , Sittner negotiated with his internet provider to make the data collected in their books available online. The data included American social security death records, marriage records, and a few other collections. These online databases were free. He later referred to it as life-changing. When he finished his studies, the young man set out to digitize the written works of the Church of Latter-day Saints.
Their company digitized LDS publications onto floppy disks, so of course, their target audience was the Mormon community. This reached a broader audience, and the company started to grow significantly.
Infobases was now selling genealogical data on CDs. By the company was listed in Inc Magazine as one of the fastest-growing companies in the U. At this point, Infobases was both a publisher of Mormon works and an online genealogy service.
That would soon change. But not before , when they acquired a book publisher called Bookcraft — which was primarily Mormon-based material. However, Allen was increasingly focused on growing their online family history databases and services. They also launched MyFamily. I would mark this as the point when Ancestry switched its focus completely to online genealogy. Legal Notices Obituaries Jobs Homes.
Mormon church's FamilySearch joins forces with Ancestry. Provo-based Ancestry. That's how democracy works. You have the right to say what you want, but not the right to say what you want without people pointing it out. Y'know what hurts me more? The fact that I can't get married. Marriage has been redefined many times since Times change, adapt. Not my politics nor bigotry, thank you. I haven't checked recently, but for a while there was one vendor marketing family tree software in big box stores that used a proprietary and non-exportable data format.
People would buy the simple package, work on their tree, and want to migrate, only to be put off by: "you'll have to re-enter your data.
Many of the rest of the user population benefit from a generally usable and I'll agree, imperfect data standard, without which this field would be less interesting and less profitable. There are a bunch of challenges for software developers in regard to traditional family structures of many kinds, generally showing that real life is often more complicated than simple tree-oriented data-structures might suggest.
Since it won't be producing offspring, homosexual marriage is fairly irrelevant for the purposes of genealogy. Firstly, many users don't just use genealogy software to track their DNA ancestors, people use it to record details of their family tree.
If a relative died without leaving any offspring, that person isn't deleted from the tree, they are still there. Likewise, people may want to record same sex marriage in their family trees, even though there might not be any off spring. People in same sex marriages might want to track their own family trees. A man might want to include his mother and his mother-in-law his husband's mother. Secondly, yes, some same sex marriages can produce children.
Thirdly, it is possible to have genetic children from a same sex marriage. Some countries have gender recognition law which allows trans people to legally change their gender and get a new birth cert. Depending on the law, they may still be in the original marriage, and still legally have children.
Yes there are people who start living as a different gender and their spouse still loves them and stays with them. Yes, these are new issues, and a lot of genealogy deals with stuff in the past, but this is only going to get more common as time passes. Blanket statements saying essentially "This is nothing to ever be worried about at all" is false. As an aside, bisexuals et al. Evbn on Oct 23, root parent prev next [—]. There is a wonderful StackOverow post about the problem of cycles in family trees.
It can happen without incestuous relationships. Many years ago -- ? They had tax records from the turn of the century that included info about my grandfather.
It was like going back in time. DanBC on Oct 22, prev next [—]. My father did some of his ancestry research with help from the LDS people at a centre in London. I was wary, expecting a bit of evangelising or conversion talk, but they didn't try any of that stuff. It was interesting that at the time it was one of the best ways to get access to computers and cd rom drives for no cost.
That's interesting that you were surprised that the LDS didn't try any of the usual cult practices of trying to induce you into their fold. Meanwhile, we have a presidential candidate from the same organization This might not be an issue if if we actually had separation of church and state in this country, but alas that's a myth despite what people might want to believe, just ask any grade school CHILD what they do first thing in the morning at school, or look at the currency and see who WE trust etc etc.
Regardless of any political view, and I'm not advocating any , I'm just picking up on the view that you had cult-like suspicions of a church organization that is a big part of the life of what might be the next President of the most powerful nation on Earth.
SiVal on Oct 23, prev next [—]. The LDS Church has records that are donated to it by its members and others. It also has an extraordinary collection of microfilmed church records from little churches of all denominations from around the globe.
These churches are often very sensitive about their records and how they will be used. These records are made available free to any individual who wants to do genealogical research through an LDS Family History Center, but they are NOT made available to commercial organizations such as Ancestry.
They are free to resell their data and, by selling the company, that's what they'll be doing. They own the copyrights of the hi-rez photos of old census docs, even though the docs themselves are in the public domain. Though Ancestry. It was founded by Mormons, many of the employees are Mormons, and lots of the customers are Mormons and driven by their religious interest; but it is distinct from the work you are discussing.
That's a hard problem! I've run across matches in the census data that I would consider illegible, but that somehow got matched with the right name. BrainScraps on Oct 22, parent next [—]. There are thousands of volunteers doing this "mechanical Turk"-like work at a pretty impressive pace.
Also, the tools created to index these records are created mainly by Mormon developers who donate their time. UrLicht on Oct 22, root parent next [—]. Mormon developers do not donate their time. The LDS Church does employ many developers, but they also benefit from a lot of volunteer contributions. BrainScraps on Oct 23, root parent prev next [—]. JoblessWonder on Oct 22, root parent prev next [—]. Is the data available to outside organizations or is it kept internally with the church?
Like 23andMe, Ancestry. Those deals, if they happen, risk sparking privacy worries among Ancestry. But Sullivan and Freestone are confident that even if some users grimace at the idea of their genetic information being sold to Genentech or Pfizer, the long-term benefits will make the discomfort worth it. After all, when you go to the doctor, one of the first things they ask for is a medical history of you and your relatives.
If Ancestry. Can we leverage this sort of technology into future health predictions also? News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism.
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