MyHeritage

MyHeritage is a company focused on helping individuals discover, preserve, and share their family history. It offers a user-friendly platform that includes DNA testing services designed to assist users in creating family trees and locating relatives. By enabling consumers to explore their ancestry, MyHeritage facilitates meaningful connections with the past and aids in reuniting individuals with long-lost family members. The combination of its online tools and DNA kits provides a comprehensive approach to genealogy, making it accessible for anyone interested in tracing their heritage and preserving family stories for future generations.

Maya Lerner

Senior Vice President, Product

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MesAieux.com

Acquisition in 2024
MesAieux.com is a genealogy service specializing in French Canadian family history. It offers its members simplified tools and professional quality products to trace their ancestry, search for ancestors and family names, and learn about pioneer history. The company continually updates its services based on customer needs.

Filae

Acquisition in 2021
Filae S.A. is a prominent Internet portal based in Paris, France, dedicated to family history and identity searching. Founded in 1994, it operates multiple websites, including Genealogie.com, which serves as a reference resource for French-speaking genealogists, and Notrefamille.com, focusing on family-oriented content. Additionally, Filae offers archival scanning services to enhance access to historical family records. The company also provides a range of services related to pregnancy, health, hygiene, fertility, and nutrition consulting, catering to diverse needs across all ages. Through its platforms, Filae aims to facilitate the public's exploration of family heritage and personal identity.

Legacy Family Tree

Acquisition in 2017
Millennia Corporation, makers of the popular genealogy desktop software Legacy Family Tree and genealogy webinar platform, Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

Geni

Acquisition in 2012
Geni is an online platform that connects casual and expert genealogists to collaboratively build a comprehensive World Family Tree. By allowing users to create and expand their family trees, Geni facilitates the sharing of family history through the addition of unlimited individuals, documents, photos, and videos. The platform encourages personal connections with history, enabling members to engage with over 55 million users and their ancestors. In addition to family tree construction, Geni provides features for preserving family memories, celebrating significant life events, and creating profiles for children. This community-driven approach helps break down barriers in genealogical research and fosters a deeper understanding of family heritage.

World Vital Records

Acquisition in 2011
Started by some of the founders of Ancestry.com, WorldVitalRecords.com maintains online databases with over 1.3 billion names and records of family histories. Some of its current partners include Everton Publishers, FamilySearch, Quintin Publications, Newspaper Archives, Archive CD Books Australia, Archive CD Books Canada, Archive CD Books USA, Eneclann, British Origins, Find My Past, Immigrant Ships Transcribers' Guild, Dundurn Books, E-Yearbook, and The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. The company also operates [FamilyLink](http://www.familylink.com), a social network for genealogists and families looking to work on their family trees and connect with one another. WorldVitalRecords.com's key competitor is [Ancestry.com](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ancestry.com).

BackupMyTree

Acquisition in 2011
BackupMyTree is a provider of software designed for genealogists, offering a family social network and backup service. The software automatically locates and creates remote, off-site copies of family tree files, ensuring that users' genealogical data is securely stored. Additionally, BackupMyTree continuously monitors changes to family trees, automatically backing up updated files. This feature allows users to maintain an up-to-date and secure archive of their family history with minimal effort, enabling them to focus on their genealogical research without worrying about data loss.

Bliscy.pl

Acquisition in 2011
Bliscy is a prominent genealogy website based in Poland that serves as a family networking platform. It allows users to create and manage their family trees by adding names, photos, and stories. The platform also facilitates sharing this information with other family members, fostering connections and collaboration among relatives. By providing a user-friendly interface, Bliscy enables individuals to explore their ancestry and strengthen family ties through shared histories.

OSN

Acquisition in 2010
OSN is an operator of pay-TV broadcasting stations that offers digital content such as blockbuster movies, sporting events, lifestyle programming, and series that are being offered to customers in the Middle East. It also provides entertainment content for devices such as laptops, tablets, and mobile phones via its online and mobile app entertainment platform, offering movies and series on the go.

Kindo Network

Acquisition in 2008
Founded in 2007, London-based Kindo is an internationally-focused web-based family networking platform that spans generations. On Kindo users can build their free next generation family tree and stay in touch with their loved ones. Kindo is available in 14 different languages with Arabic, Chinese, Turkish and Russian being exotic examples. The company is funded by high-profile business angels and venture capitalists, including Saul and Robin Klein from The Accelerator Group (TAG), Stefan Glaenzer (last.fm, myblog.de, ricardo.de) and Ambient Sound Investments (ASI), the investment company of Skype's founding engineers.
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