Modern Software Experience

2014-12-31

events & trends

Psy Gangnam Style

industry & technology

2014 is the year that BASIC turned fifty and ESA's Rosetta probe intercepted a comet. 2014 is the year people played Flappy Bird, Ello was introduced as an add-free competitor to FaceBook, FaceBook bought Oculus, Google sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo, and Intel made John McAfee happy by finally changing the name of McAfee antivirus.
Psy's Gangnam Style video passed the 32-barrier; it was viewed more than 2.147.483.647 times, and YouTube had to upgrade its counter. Apple reminded everyone that they introduced the Macintosh in 1984. Apple iCloud was cracked and the cracker released private pictures from celebrity accounts. 2014 is the year the USA's FCC could not preemptively enforce net neutrality, Sony got hacked big time, the Pirate Bay got raided again, and a week later, The Open Bay was GitHub's most popular project.

Adobe and Google released an open-source pan-CJK typeface family. Adobe calls its Source Han Sans, Google calls it Noto Sans CJK.

2014 is the year that Microsoft buried MSN Messenger. Microsoft introduced MSN Messenger in 1999. They changed the name to Live Messenger in 2005, but many users kept using the original name. Microsoft bought Skype in 2011, and in 2012, they announced that Messenger and Skype would merge, when in fact they were going to retire MSN Messenger, thus forcing users to upgrade to Skype. In January of 2013, Microsoft emailed users that, with the exception of mainland China, the Messenger service would stop working on 2013 March 15. On 2014 Oct 31, Microsoft shut down the Messenger service in China.

Microsoft terminated public support for Windows XP. They announced Windows 10 as the successor to Windows 8, and released Technical Previews. They also released a bit more Microsoft .NET source code, but their claim that it is open source was immediately disputed.

mobile

Tablets and mobile phones remain hot, with Apple iOS and Google Android continuing to lead.
Google introduced Android 5.0 Lollipop with Material Design, and Project Ara, its modular smartphone. Apple introduced the iPhone 6. Amazon introduced its Fire Phone, with its FireOS based Android, and soon discovered that almost no one wanted to buy it.

BlackBerry introduced BlackBerry OS 10.2.1. The upgrade from 10.2.0 to 10.2.1 suggests a minor update, but 10.2.1 officially introduced the ability to run Android apps.

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OnePlus released the OnePlus One, which did not turn out to be flagship-killer is was supposed to be, due to limited availability.

Feeling the pressure from both free and paid alternatives, Microsoft decided to make its Office apps for Android and iOS free.

smartwatches

Major tablet makers introduced watches as tablet companions. Google introduced Android Wear, Android for smartwatches and other wearables. Asus introduced the ZenWatch, LG introduced the G Watch, Motorola introduced the Moto 360, Samsung introduced the Samsung Gear Live, and Sony introduced the Smartwatch 3. and Apple, behind the competition as usual, merely announced the Apple Watch.

USB Type-C connector

Nokia, acquired by Microsoft in 2013, introduced the Nokia N1, one of the very first devices to feature an USB Type-C connector, which is not only smaller than the Micro-B connector, but is also a symmetrical design that can and may be reversed, ending frustration over the plug's orientation.

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web

HTML5 became an official W3C recommendation on 2013 Oct 28, HTTP/1.1. got updated, Google finally introduced a 64-bit edition of their Chrome browser, Firefox became 10 years old and Mozilla introduced Firefox Developer Edition, the first browser dedicated to web developers.

genealogy industry developments

major developments

Ancestry.com retired several services, including MyFamily.com, Mundia.com and their older DNA tests. They sold MyCanvas to a third party. Family Tree Maker remained their problem product, and they did not introduce Family Tree Maker 2015.
MyHeritage started to really open up their record matching technology, announcing collaborations with several major partners.
Trying to keep with Ancestry.com & MyHeritage, FamilySearch introduced Record Hints.
On 2014 Jun 17, Findmypast.co.uk announced that it had bought Origins.net, and just days later, that it had bought Mocavo.com. They introduced a new online family tree and just before the year's end, findmypast hints, their record matching technology.

FHISO finally awoke from a year-long slumber, and has a very active mailing list now.
Apart for the removal of the GEDCOM 5.5 and 5.5.1 specifications from the FamilySearch site, FamilySearch's GEDCOM X project remained in the background.
Google silently introduced Google Genomics, a cloud platform for storing DNA data, that supports the Genomics API.

genealogy software

major upgrades

Major upgrades include GENP 5, HuMo-Gen 5, Family Historian 6, RootsMagic 7, Brother's Keeper 7, The Master Genealogist 9, Second Site 5, The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNG) 10, and the findmypast website. Ancestry.com did not introduce a new version of Family Tree Maker called Family Tree Maker 2015. The GRAMPS project released version 4.0 last year, but only for Linux, and this year, GRAMPS 4.0 for Windows remained missing in action.

The major new feature Peter Evans' GENP version 5 is that it is a Unicode-based application now. This required a change in database format, but version 5 can handle Unicode GEDCOM files, and even features Japanese language support, complete with a Japanese example database.

The 2008 review of Family Historian 3.1.2 faulted it for behaving as if Unicode doesn't exist. Family Historian's programmer, Simon Orde has taken that to heart. Family Historian 4 may already have made some preparations towards a Unicode-based design, Family Historian 5 (2012) added UTF-8 support, and Family Historian 6, released this year, is fully Unicode-based.

Wholly Genes' release of The Master Genealogist version 9 disappointed; despite the major version number increase, it did not offer any major new features. TMG 9 still doesn't support Unicode, and the user-interface had not improved noticeably either. Just a few months later, Wholly Genes announced the long-expected discontinuation of TMG. Wholly Genes' TMG remained stuck in the 1980s, a complete rebuild of the software overdue for years, but this year Wholly Genes decided to simply give up, without ever having tried to make a modern version.

new genealogy applications & utilities

New genealogy applications include the Genealone web app, BegatAll Genealogy Chronicles for Windows 8.1, Big A Software introduced TreeHopper, Pappilon Productions' Relative History for Windows 8 and Windows Phone, Atavus' RootsTrust for Windows, Mac & Linux, GEDCOM File Finder and Dan Pidcock's gedcomToHTML, not be confused with Gene Stark's GED2HTML.
Relative History is still in Beta, and just a genealogy viewer right now, and the developer is working to make it a genealogy editor.
All these new genealogy application are Unicode-based.

BegatAll Genealogy Chronicles, TreeHopper and Relative History are Windows 8.1 applications, that can be bought through Microsoft's Windows Store.

Also still in Beta is Relativity Explorer. Departure Technology, Departure Technologies moves you from data to wisdom faster than ever possible, considers it their flagship application, but don't let their slogan and that designation get your hopes up; Relativity Explorer is that rare breed of genealogy application, one created by developers who apparently never looked into existing genealogy applications, and uses its own ad-hoc text file format instead of GEDCOM.

Two utilities appeared to deal with shortcomings of desktop applications.
Tom Holden created RMπ (RMpi), the RootsMagic pre-import utility, that tweaks GEDCOM files to compensate for a few RootsMagic GEDCOM import issues.
Thomas Giammo created WitnessTMG to extract witness information from a The Master Genealogist (TMG) database into a GEDCOM file, because TMG did not do so.

The German Gedcom2List can convert GEDCOM to lists for use with Word or Excel, and List2GedCom can convert lists from Word or Excel to GEDCOM format.

Ever since Geni.com introduced their Geni API, there's been a trickle of third-party apps. The Geni Forest Density Calculator (GFDC) will tell you how many people there are within a particular number steps from an individual.

Jamroom's Genosis, a new web app, entered Beta. Remarkably, Genosis does not only claim GEDCOM support, but under the header Sync Your Existing Tree, their website claims that Genosis works with Ancestry.com and Family Tree Maker. This suggests that Genosis can sync with Family Tree Maker and Ancestry.com. As far as I know, Family Tree Maker will only sync with Ancestry.com, and Ancestry.com is still keeping the API used to sync with Ancestry.com private. Genosis does in fact not feature any syncing technology, you have to make and then import a GEDCOM file.

There is a growing number of DNA applications and utilities. Applications introduced this year include Genome Mate and Chromosome Mapper.

new web sites

New web sites include FamilyTreeNow, Genealogytree.us, Family.Me, Armenian Family Tree, Interrelatives and Khandan Info, two English-language site for Indian genealogy, Irish Archives Resource (IAR), a portal for archival collections throughout Ireland, and the kirchenbuchportal, a church book portal for Germany, and My Genesis Tree, a commercial genealogy site with an emphasis on stories.
DC Thomson Family History worked with Who Do You Think You are to introduce Who Do You Think Are Story and with the Imperial War Museums (IWM) to introduce Lives of the First World War.
Progeny introduced wallcharts, a site for creating wall charts.

With fierce competition for users, user expectations and demands are increasing. As a result, the bar for online genealogy sites is increasing. CommuTree introduced a companion app. The new web sites Full Family Tree and Famicity, a French social network with a family tree component, were both introduced complete with mobile app, and the new SnapRoots site - like kin2.me (still in Beta), a modern face on top of the OneGreatFamily database - offers automated genealogy data matching from the start.

betas

YouWho first announced in 2012, went into private Beta in 2013. During 2014, nothing happened.
StoryPress came out of Beta. The new HistoryLines, AncestorCloud and Legacyshare sites entered Beta.

new mobile apps

New apps include CatroGenea (Android only), Genealogy Supplies' TreeView, and the British Newspapers Archive's Here & Then app (iOS only). RootsMagic for Android entered Beta last year, and was released in January. FamilySearch released the FamilySearch Tree app for Android and iOS, and the FamilySearch Memories app for iOS only. DC Thomson Family History (findmypast) introduced I once was, a photofuck app for iOS.

It has become common and almost de rigeur for a website to have an app. StoryVault, a web site introduced in 2010, introduced their StoryVault app. FFT Connect, an Android app for the new Full Family Tree site, the Famicity app for the new Famicity site.

Creas App Inc introduced the Wiki Tree and FamilySearch apps for Androids. These were essentially single-site web browsers, created for the advertising revenue, and were soon gone from Google Play.

Geneanet did not only update its Geneanet app, originally read-only, to allow editing now, but also introduced GeneaQuiz and Geneagraves.
Geneanet introduced Geneagraves. Ancestry.com introduced the official Find A Grave app, BillionGraves app was updated to supports 25 languages.

Sherwood Electronics Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) made an iPad variant of their Branches software, and their home page says a MacOS variant is coming soon.

Most apps are for Apple iOS and Google Android, but there are some for Windows Phone. This year, The Magi Key introduced MagiPhoto, a utility for uploading photos to FamilySearch Family Tree.
Windows tablet users can run Windows 8.1 apps like BegatAll Genealogy Chronicles and Big A Software TreeHopper. Relative History is available for both Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone.

new add-ons

New add-ons include the GEDCOM Plugin for Notepad++, MacBridge for RootsMagic, Genealone WP for WordPress, and Stefan Harms introduced Family Book Creator, a New Family Tree Maker plug-in.

Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com not sold MyCanvas, discontinued Mundia and their older DNA tests, they also discontinued MyFamily.com without providing an acceptable alternative or export, and destroyed DNA data and samples. After a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS), Ancestry.com was slow to get all their services online again. Family Tree Maker continues to be their problem product, so much so, that they did not see fit to introduce Family Tree Maker 2015.
Ancestry.com released the Find A Grave app they promised last year.
See Ancestry.com 2014 for a more detailed discussion.

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MyHeritage

MyMatching

Since 2011, MyHeritage Family Tree Builder uses GenBridge, TMG's import module, to offer direct import from competing products. This year, MyHeritage has been focussing on getting third parties to integrate their Smart Matching and Record Matching into those third parties' products. In November, they first announced that Dutch Windows application Aldfaer and Dutch web site Genealogie Online will integrate of MyHeritage's Smart Matching & Record Matching, ten days later announced that Calico Pie's new Family Historian 6 will include it, and finally, that RootsMagic 7 includes MyHeritage matching too.
Although some matches are free to view, most will require a MyHeritage subscription.

MyHeritage bought Geni.com late in 2012. There were some immediate changes, most notably MyHeritage's refusal to honour lifetime memberships. Although Geni.com remains separate from MyHeritage, there has been some integration going on, such as the ability to search the same record collections. This year Geni.com became a bit more like MyHeritage with the introduction of multilingual profiles. In April of 2014, General Manager and former Geni.com CEO left the company.

MyNetherlands

Throughout 2014, MyHeritage increased its presence in the Netherlands. MyHeritage is offering 2 months of free access to visitors of the new International Museum for Family History, they are the main sponsor of Gaenovium 2014, and announced collaboration with Genealogie Online and Aldfaer.

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DC Thomson Family History

introductions

DC Thomson Family History, made a splash in the USA market in mid 2012, when the company's was still known as Brightsolid, with the introduction of the commercial website censusrecords.com.

This year, DC Thomson Family History introduced the I once was photofuck app. It is for iOS only, Android users were spared this silliness. The considerably more serious Here & Then app for the British Newspaper Archive is also for iOS only.

PERSI

FindMyPast is now the official host of the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI), a database created by the Allen County Public Library (ACPL), that contains more than 2,5 million entries referencing historical, genealogical and ethnic publications, and clicking the references increasing leads to digitised publications.

acquisitions

On 2014 Jun 17, findmypast.co.uk announced that it had bought Origins.net, and just days later, that it had bought Mocavo.com. Acquiring Origins.net made obvious sense, but acquiring an un-innovative, technologically trailing me-too search engine does not seem so sensible. Comparative tests by various genealogists have shown mocavo to be an inferior search engine that can't begin to stand in the shadow of google.com, so why would findmypast waste their money on it? They didn't, it merely is part of the deal.

Behind Mocavo's search engine facade is a business focussed on content and subscriptions. As I pointed out several times already, mocavo is far from just a search engine indexing third party content, but has been very busy acquiring and hosting content themselves, thus directly competing with the other companies they index (!), and built a business charging users for access to these free records. That content, and that business, is what findmypast spent its money on.

DC Thompson Family History now provides the entire USA census index for free through mocavo.com. This move highlights what the acquisition is about; expanding DC Thompson's USA presence.

findmypast

Findmypast introduced a new and improved web site that upset their users so much, that some called it unfit for purpose, and the Family Tree magazine ran a whole article discussing the changes.
Findmypast introduced a new online family tree. The initial GEDCOM support wasn't very good, but findmypast was quick to fix it, and just before the year's end, they introduced findmypast hints, their new record matching technology, which will match your online tree to their record collections.

Lives of the First World War

World War I, originally known as the Great War, started 100 years, and several genealogy magazines and vendors paid attention to this. The Imperial War Museums (IWM) and DC Thomson Family History did something more permanent, they started the Lives of the First World War website, where anyone can contribute stories about individuals involved in World War 1. The site includes several record sets that are completely free to search and view.

23AndMe

In 2013, the U.S.A. FDA decided that 23AndMe wasn't allowed to give health advice, pending a regulatory review process. Throughout 2014, 23AndMe worked with the FDA to create a health report the FDA can approve of. In October of 2014, 23AndMe started offering the FDA-banned health reports in Canada, and December of 2014, 23AndMe started offering them the United Kingdom.

WikiTree

WikiTree picked up on last years' celebrity cousins trends. Throughout 2014, WikiTree annoyed people with a barrage of social spam about their involvement in the so-called Global Family Reunion, a practically anti-genealogical event scheduled for 2015 that considers WikiTree, Geni.com and even FamilySearch Family Tree as sufficient proof of relationships.

Early this year, WikiTree introduced their WikiTree API. The API is still read-only, and there are no apps using it yet.

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AncestorySync

There were a few AncestorSync Betas early in 2014. Early in January of 2014, AncestorSync development switched to a continuous build cycle, with new Beta release builds appearing almost daily, but in February, the website went offline.
No one is working on AncestorSync any more. Development has been halted and the website has been abandoned. The SourceTemplates initiative was strongly tied to AncestorSync, and seems just as dead now.

standards

FHISO

The Family History Information Standards Organisation (FHISO) is alive. On 2013 Jun 8, FHISO announced that it had appointed genealogist Drew Smith as chair, and for more than a year after that, nothing happened. FHISO seemed dead, but in August of this year, FHISO sprung back to live.
On 2014 Aug 12, FHISO announced that technical work would begin, and on 2014 Aug 29, they announced the standards-setting process they're going to use.
Formation of a FHISO board was announced in September, and the mailing list is used to form the first Exploratory Groups.
The new FHISO mailing list is a hub of discussions on many subjects, but don't hold your breath for a new standard yet.

GEDCOM X

Despite the 1.0 version given to it in mid 2013, FamilySearch's GEDCOM X still isn't ready. The GEDCOM to GEDCOM X converter remains buggy and incomplete, and there still is no GEDCOM X to GEDCOM converter. This year, the focus seems to have been on creating documentation, something you'd expect to be included in version 1.0.
Project progress has been so slow that GEDCOM X still doesn't deserve that 1.0 version number.
GEDCOM X was revealed more than three years ago, late in 2011, and three years later, no third party is using GEDCOM X yet.

FamilySearch also seems to have changed the API for FamilySearch Family Tree (FSFT, previously known as New FamilySearch), without informing the third party products that use it, so these promptly failed to work right.

GEDCOM

GEDCOM 5.5.1, the last publicly released GEDCOM specification, turned 15 this year.
In a ill-considered attempt to push developers to use GEDCOM X, FamilySearch removed the few remaining GEDCOM specifications from their site; this was no accident, they removed both the pages and the files. After I called public attention to this, they put it back up, but for how long it will remain is not sure, and that even their own wiki doesn't link to it isn't an encouraging sign.

I put up the FamilySearch GEDCOM Specifications page, which provides not just the GEDCOM 5.5 and GEDCOM 5.5.1 specifications, but many more. Together with Louis Kessler, I am making an effort to provide all old GEDCOM specifications we can find.

organisations

In July, Bob Coret and I introduced Gaenovium, the genealogy technology conference. Gaenovium 2014 took place on 2014 October 8, and was well-received by participants.

In September of last year, the Society for One-Place Studies introduced itself. In November of this year, the Surname Society introduced itself. The two websites for these two organisations have an identical main menu, and that's because these two organisations share founders. Michele Simmons Lewis's blog post Official launch of The Surname Society addresses the overlap of the Surname Society with already existing Guild of One-Name Studies.

TV shows

The number of genealogy related programmes on television continues to increase.
The BBC broadcasted season 11 of Who Do You Think Are, Around the world, many national versions were broadcast, with TLC broadcasting the fifth season of Who Do You Think Are USA. The Find My Past show, sponsored by, you guessed it, findmypast brightsolid DC Thomson Family History, ran for two series, in 2011 and 2012, on the Yesterday channel, and in April of this year, Travel Channel announced that it was working on eight new shows, including Find My Past.
PPBS aired the second series of Finding your Roots and continued the Genealogy Roadshow. CNN started Roots: Our Journeys Home Catholic Life Television introduced Roots of Faith: Ancestry, a series that teaches genealogy.

Netherlands

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WieWasWie

The WieWasWie portal was created by Stichting Archiefprogrammatuur (STAP), a subsidised organisation of archivists delivered a disappointing product many years late, despite millions in governments subsidies.
Ever since the WieWasWie Beta went live in mid 2012, the Central Bureau of Genealogy (CBG) has been responsible for managing the site, but it was only on 2014 Nov 11, that STAP formally transferred full ownership of the site to the CBG.
The CBG gets about 1,8 million Euro per year from the National Archives to maintain and improve their digital infrastructure, yet still hasn't done anything to improve either StamboomNederland or WieWasWie since their introduction.

Aldfaer

Aldfaer is the most popular Dutch genealogy application. After discontinuing development of version 5.0, the development decided to focus on bug fixes and make version 4.3 as their final version. and had already started to dismantle their website.
In November, MyHeritage announced cooperation with two Dutch genealogy organisation. They are supporting the Aldfaer organisation now, which will integrate of MyHeritage's Smart Matching & Record Matching into Aldfaer.

Genealogie Online

In the same press release, MyHeritage announced cooperation with Coret Genealogie; Bob Coret will advise MyHeritage on improving their offerings in the Netherlands, and will add MyHeritage matching technologies to Genealogie Online.

What the press release doesn't mention is that Genealogie Online is already matching trees and records against several other services; this isn't a new direction for Coret Genealogie, just a noteworthy addition to an existing direction.
The Nederlandse Genealogische Vereniging (Dutch Genealogical Society) has commented cautiously.

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change

The new International Museum for Family History opened its doors, but to many users, the biggest news is that on, On 2014 Jan 28, WieWasWie finally introduced an English user-interface.

Another development is that Bob Coret's Open Archives site has become an indexing platform. This put it in mild competition of the VeleHanden (Many Hands) platform introduced in 2011; Open Archives offers indexing only, VeleHanden offers full-service scanning & indexing solutions.

Dutch Society for Heraldry

On 2014 Nov 18, the Nederlands Genootschap voor Heraldiek (Dutch Society for Heraldry) was founded. It will issue a quarterly magazine, register heraldic arms, and organise an annual heraldic day.

trends

lasting trends

Lasting multi-year trends include growth of the industry, continual digitisation, indexing and publication of records sets, and cheaper, better DNA tests, with better analysis.

discontinuation & user migration

2014 was a year of discontinuation & user migration.
It's a rare year that does not include the discontinuation of some products, but when well-known products & services owned by major industry players are discontinued, we really take notice.
Wholly Genes discontinued The Master Genealogist, and Ancestry.com discontinued Mundia, MyFamily.com and their older DNA tests.

Users continue to flee from the buggy Family Tree Maker, and PAF users continue to switch to alternatives. Now that TMG has officially been discontinued, TMG users are looking at alternatives, with third party vendors are adding direct import from TMG to attract TMG users.
Users were forced to migrate from MyFamily.com to other services.

Unicode

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The genealogy industry has switched to Unicode. Most major applications have been upgraded, and are Unicode-based now. Non-Unicode applications are being discontinued, new applications are Unicode based, and there is growing awareness among both reviewers and users that Unicode support is a must-have basic feature.

mobile apps

Mobile apps are clearly past being a trend, have become part of the genealogy software scene. Many users are already taking apps for granted, and are not merely expecting but practically demanding apps.
There were many app updates and introductions this year, unsurprisingly mostly for Android and iOS. Many companies develop apps for both platforms. Some companies still develop iOS apps first, but more and companies are developing their Android apps first. New genealogy websites were introduced complete with mobile companion app.

cemetery competition

Competition for cemetery recording apps has heated up, with Find A Grave (Ancestry.com) BillionGraves (collaborating with MyHeritage) and GeneaGraves (Geneanet) vying for users.

consolidation

Ancestry.com and MyHeritage both have a considerable history of acquisitions, including the acquisition of Find A Grave by Ancestry.com in the latter half of 2013.
This year, DC Thomson Family History bought Origins.net and Mocavo, and MyHeritage partnered with multiple third partners.
Developments like this do make some people worry about a few large companies dominating the scene, but however dominant a few large companies may be, there is still no shortage of hopeful newcomers. This year, like previous years, saw many new companies introducing new products and services.

collaboration

Collaboration was a trend last year already. It's not just collaboration between the big players that's important, there is an increasing number of partnerships between big and small players.

matching technology

Syncing technology remains important - and problematic. Development of the once so promising AncestorSync has discontinued, and Ancestry.com's TreeSync still does not work as intended, but in 2014, major vendors shifted their attention to matching technology.

Ancestry.com continued to promote their shaky leaves. MyHeritage got their matching technology into multiple third party products. RootsMagic combined MyHeritage and FamilySearch matching in a single desktop product, FamilySearch introduced Record Hints, and findmypast introduced the first beta of findmypast hints, their new record matching technology.
RootsMagic 7 became the first application to integrate matching technology from two different vendors.

standards

Disagreement on genealogy data standards remains. FamilySearch still hasn't joined FHISO, the organisation BetterGEDCOM created because FamilySearch asked them to do so. FamilySearch's GEDCOM X remained less than its 1.0 version number suggests. There is no migration strategy, and no third party supports it. FHISO is having discussions, and forming exploratory groups.
GEDCOM 5.5.1 remains the de facto standard.
Meanwhile, the Global Alliance for Genomics & Health, formed last year, published file format and API specifications.

Updates

2015-03-09 Dutch Society for Heraldry

Added founding of the Dutch Society for Heraldry.

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