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2016-04-04 Findmypast API: Yet another Genealogy API.
2015-03-20 WieWasWie Family Tree Builder: Retiring soon.
2014-08-20 FamilySearch removes GEDCOM specifications: FamilySearch removes own standard from own site.
2014-03-12 International Museum for Family History: Family Museum will open soon.
2013-08-30 Brightsolid Split: Changes.
2013-07-08 ANSEL Administratively Withdrawn: Status drop.
2013-06-28 FamilySearch officially abandons PAF: More than a decade late, PAF abandonment becomes official.
2013-06-25 Family Tree Maker World Express: Family Tree Maker for free.
2013-06-04 GEDCOM X 1.0.0 M1: FamilySearch Family Tree API.
2013-02-10 WieWasWie GEDCOM: Headless GEDCOM.
2013-01-28 Genlias Servers retired: Genlias gone.
2012-12-18 RootsMagic App for iDevices: Free companion app.
2012-12-17 WieWasWie Update: RealSoonNow: WhatWhyWhen.
2012-12-10 Google+ Genealogy Communities: Google+ Genealogy Community Guidance.
2012-11-09 Online Genealogy Consistency Checks: Genealogy sites check your genealogy.
2012-11-05 The Ancestry Permira Deal: Private Negotiations.
2012-10-30 AncestorSync Connect: Yet Another Beta: Release Candidate 2.
2012-08-17 Family Tree Maker 2013: Good news: no Family Tree Maker 2013.
2012-08-15 GEDCOM X: FamilySearch First: GEDCOM X not vendor neutral.
2012-07-02 WieWasWie Beta: Who was Who.
2012-07-01 FamilySearch Family Tree Public: FinallySearch Finally Tree.
2012-06-11 KiN2: Are you kin2 me?
2012-06-06 GEDCOM X Converter: GEDCOM X is Spectacularly Inefficient.
2012-06-04 Leiden Missing Links Project: Leiden links baptisation, marriage and burial records 1580-1811.
2012-05-09 AncestorSync Beta 2012: New Beta syncs New Family Tree Maker with Geni.
2012-05-04 Ancestry.com introduces AncestryDNA: Ancestry.com goes autosomal.
2012-04-09 Dutch Roots: English Guide to Dutch Genealogy.
2012-02-16 MyHeritage selling Family Tree DNA Tests: Yet another Family Tree DNA reseller.
2012-02-02 FamilySearch releases GEDCOM X: GEDCOM X goes public.
2011-02-01 historical-data.org: Schema.org for genealogy.
2012-01-27 Brightsolid introduces censusrecords.com: Brightsolid enters American market.
2012-01-24 Family Graph API SDK for Android and iOS: MyHeritage API goes mobile.
2011-12-22 FamilySearch Family Tree API Public: Private API is public now.
2011-12-07 openSNP: Open genetic data.
2011-11-24 Vrouwekerk Plaque: Pilgrim Church Plague.
2011-11-21 MyHeritage buys FamilyLink: The revolution has been sold.
2011-11-03 Many Hands: Public crowd-sourcing.
2011-11-03 Dutch Militia Registers: Crowd-sourced Dutch records.
2011-10-05 Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011: Apple.com.
2011-10-05 The SourceTemplates Initiative: BetterCitation.
2011-09-27 Ancestry for Android Beta: Ancestry goes Android.
2011-09-23 Progeny Embroidery Charts: Family tree fashion.
2011-09-09 Family Tree Maker Complete: New Family Tree Maker bundle lacks Ancestry.com appeal.
2011-09-01 MyHeritage App Competition: Seven thousand Euri for YourApp.
2011-08-18 Ancestry renames Footnote to Fold3: Footnote folded, Fold3 unfolded.
2011-08-15 MyHeritage Family Graph API: Yet Another Genealogy API
2011-08-01 Family Tree Maker 2012 Public Beta: Dropbox Ancestry.
2011-07-31 GED-inline: A Brand New GEDCOM Validator.
2011-06-12 IPv6 Now: IPv6 enabled.
2011-06-07 World IPv6 Day: Preparing for the IPocalypse.
2011-05-22 Family Tree Builder 5.1 adds Direct Import: MyImport not interested in legacy applications.
2010-11-04 Family Tree Maker for Mac is back: Last year's Windows product on Macintosh today.
2010-10-13 New Site Regional Archive Leiden: Online access to scans.
2010-10-05 Some Family Tree Maker for Mac Details: Ready to convert?
2010-09-30 FamilyLink MyFamily: going, going, gone?: Stick Figures stuck in limbo.
2010-04-09 Ancestry.com Shoebox: Ancestry.com adds handy feature.
2010-02-05 MyHeritage growing through Acquisitions: Acquire, acquire, acquire.
2010-02-01 Apple iPad: iPhone XL: Steve Jobs introduces a product page.
2009-12-12 Mundia First Look: Ancestry.com goes social on FaceBook.
2009-08-23 New York Nieuw-Amsterdam: Dutch origins of Manhattan.
2009-07-15 FamilyLink abandoning FamilyLink: FamilyLink facts, opinion and speculation.
2009-07-12 MyHeritage lowering Limit again: Downsizing.
2009-07-09 GenealogyWise: Another ning.com for genealogists.
2009-07-08 Chrome OS: Just announced, yet mostly already here.
2009-05-05 Windows 7 Release Candidate: Vista successor is XP compatible.
2009-05-03 New FamilyLink Site integrates with FaceBook: We're Related on the web.
2009-05-01 Pilgrims welcomed in Leiden again: Four hundredth Anniversary of the Arrival of the Pilgrims in Leiden.
2009-05-01 New Pilgrim Archives Web Site: Pilgrim museum director unveils Pilgrim Archives web site at invitation of Pilgrim museum curator.
2009-01-23 Return To Maker: National action against junk mail.
2009-02-12 Geni.com Grumblings: Geni.com disconnects distant cousins.
2009-02-05 Family Tree Maker 2009 Service Pack 1 Available: Install registers problem.
2009-02-02 GenSeek: Seek and ye shall find 2.0.
2009-02-01 FamilyLink Site: Two new FamilyLink.com sites.
2009-01-13 1911 Census is Live: Hatches battened to weather heavy visitor storm.
2009-01-03 RootsMagic 4 Preview: RootsMagic 4 revealed.
2009-01-02 MyHeritage hijacking homepages: MyHeritage switches search engine of Family Tree Builder users.
2009-01-01 Zune Revival: All is Quiet on New Year's Day.
2008-12-22 GeneAwards 2008: Best and worst of genealogy 2008.
2008-12-15 Family Tree Maker 2009: FTM 2008 Take Two.
2008-12-14 Blackbird Browser Beta: Black Adware.
2008-12-13 Google Chrome 1.0: Google Chrome version 1.0 lacks version 1.0 quality.
2008-12-06 MyBlood 1.0 Alpha 1: Brand new program’s pre-release does not impress.
2008-11-27 LunaScape 5: One browser, two locales, three engines..
2008-11-22 Family Historian 3.1.2: Vendor claims 100 % GEDCOM compatibility, but cannot handle GEDCOM files.
2008-11-08 LongFamilyHistory 2.0: Version 2.0 is an improvement.
2008-11-01 Google reads images: Revealing graphic text.
2008-10-31 Time Invention of the Year 2008: DNA tests at your local discount store.
2008-10-31 Windows 7 PDC Build: Changes are coming.
2008-10-30 Microsoft Azure: Windows in the cloud.
2008-10-29 Microsoft and Google support OpenID?: Half-truths about one sided implementations.
2008-10-15 Flock 2.0: Browsing 2.0.
2008-10-15 It’s Our Tree Home Edition 1.0: Anorexic application lacks the muscle to move.
2008-10-14 Windows 6.1 is now Windows 7: Seven is the new eleven.
2008-10-06 Mono 2.0: Open Source .NET 2.0.
2008-09-26 SRWare Iron: Private Chrome.
2008-09-25 GenSoftReviews: Consumer genealogy reviews.
2008-09-20 We’re Related users to be spammed?: Paul Allen planning promotional mailings…
2008-09-14 World Wide Web Foundation: World Wide Web What?
2008-09-13 GazoPa: Similar search engines delivers dissimilar results.
2008-09-13 Footnote is not Facebook: Facebook for the Dead?
2008-08-23 Expression Web 2.0: Microsoft expresses dislike for standards.
2008-08-22 Confucius Cup 2008: The torture test for the titans of genealogy software.
2008-08-16 Visual Search Engines: They’ve got the look? The state of the visual web search art.
2008-08-16 Confucius Cascade: A practical approach to testing slow genealogy software.
2008-08-11 The Confucius Challenge: Only the best software need to try.
2008-08-09 Two Huge GEDCOM Files: A different species.
2008-08-04 TribalJunction: Fish Tank Boarding School Genealogy.
2008-08-02 knol is a turnip: Knol isn’t a lemon.
2008-08-02 Relatives 1.0: Graphical performance.
2008-07-28 Cuil: How cool is Cuil?
2008-07-18 MobileMe: New: a bad implementation of a bad idea.
2008-07-18 Family History Hosting: John Cardinal has a second site.
2008-07-16 Genealogical Record: Largest Documented Family Tree: Ten thousand ancestors and descendants documented.
2008-07-10 Modern Genealogy Beta: Beta sign-up for new genealogy software.
2008-07-05 AncestralSpace: Genealogical community without genealogical features.
2008-07-04 Free defragmentation tools for Windows: Quick overview of defrag tools for Windows.
2008-07-01 Microsoft documents more Office File Formats: Office documentation, version 1.0.
2008-07-01 Family Tree Maker 2009 Beta Test: Ancestry.com calls for FTM 2009 Beta Testers.
2008-06-26 Legacy 7: Unresolved issues.
2008-06-20 Ancestry.com sues Millennia for trademark infringement: Picks on leaf from another tree. Comparison shows Ancestry.com design to be unoriginal.
2008-05-13 Geni adds GEDCOM: Geni.com GEDCOM support; issues and performance.
2008-05-12 Genea 1.4.1 GEDCOM performance: A look at GEDCOM import speed now that Genea version 1.4.1 imports and exports GEDCOM files.
2008-05-08 Windows XP Service Pack 3 disables Internet Explorer 7 uninstall: What XP SP3 does to IE7, and what Microsoft should do.
2008-05-07 Family Tree Maker 2008 Service Pack 3: FTM2008 SP3 and GEDCOM import speed..
2008-05-06 Opera Dragonfly Beta: Opera releases web developer tools.
2008-05-04 Hereditree 2008: New Australian genealogy program.
2008-04-04 Aldfaer 4.0: Fourth major release of popular Dutch genealogy program.
2008-03-26 Adobe PhotoSteal Express: Adobe PhotoShop Express a license to steal?
2008-03-26 Apple Safari 3.1 Critical Vulnerabilities: Apple Safari 3.1 not secure.
2008-03-26 Apple Safari Illegal: Apple license forbids using Safari.
2008-03-18 Apple pushing Safari 3.1: Apple using Apple Software Update to push Safari.
2008-03-15 A Short Look at LongFamilyHistory: A first look at a new genealogy program.
2008-03-04 Millennia introduces Legacy Charting: A first look at Millennia’s entry into genealogy charting software.
2008-02-28 Genea 1.2: Genea 1.2 adds GEDCOM import, making it ripe for review.
2008-02-19 Mozilla starts Mozilla Messaging: The Mozilla Foundation creates Mozilla Messaging subsidiary.
2008-02-17 Genealogical Record: Largest Family Tree: Confucius say: so many descendants.
2008-02-15 Microsoft releases Office file formats: Microsoft posts some Office binary file formats under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise.
2008-01-24 Dutch Minister of Justice an Illegal Alien?: Dutch minister is not who he says he is?
2008-01-22 W3C releases first public working draft for HTML 5: Unified draft offers new features.
2008-01-19 Microsoft strong-arming start-ups to push Messenger?: Fortune Magazine's Josh Quittner on Microsoft business practices.
2008-01-17 Microsoft to release binary office document formats: Microsoft will release binary Office document formats before next OOXML meeting.
2008-01-15 New W3C recommendation: SPARQL: The W3C has promoted SPARQL, the query language for the Semantic Web, to an official recommendation.
2008-01-15 The Master Genealogist Version 7: Review of Wholly Genes’ TMG version 7.
2008-01-15 Palm releases Palm Desktop for Vista: Palm has released to long awaited Palm Desktop for Windows.
2008-01-11 Ancestry.com inviting Family Tree Maker 2008 Patch Testers: Ancestry.com FTM blog invites FTM 2008 users to become patch testers.
2008-01-05 Palm no longer providing JVM: Palm JVM download no longer available.
2007-12-24 WinGeno 1.0: Genogram editor.
2007-12-12 WinFamily 7: Announced back in 2004, WinFamily 7 is here.
2007-08-27 Internet Biographical Collection: Ancestry.com appropriating ancestries
2007-08-14 Family Tree Maker 2008 released: FTM2008 out of beta and now selling as successor to FTM16.
2007-06-15 Apple Safari Speed claims debunked: Apple Safari speed claims rely on benchmark fudging.
2007-05-30 Ancestral Quest 12: Ancestral Quest still disappoints PAF user.
2007-01-25 Expression Web 1.0: Unreliable.
2006-12-20 GenoPro 2007: Review of GenoPro 2.0, now known as GenoPro 2007.