Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Family Search and My Heritage Partnership

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter speaks of the new strategic partnership between MyHeritage and FamilySearch which 'will bring billions of global historical records and family tree profiles spanning hundreds of years to MyHeritage - sophisticated search and record matching capabilities will become available on FamilySearch.org, far more effective than anything available previously on that site ...'

Read more at:

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2013/10/follow-up-myheritages-and-familysearchs-new-strategic-partnership.html



6 comments:

Thomas MacEntee said...

The arrangement is a "strategic partnership" not a merger - a merger would mean one party would purchase the other which isn't happening.

Mole said...

You're right, Thomas, a terminological inexactitude. Thanks, Mole

ANDREW VAN RENSBURG said...

The distinction between a "merger" and an "acquisition" has become increasingly blurred in various respects (particularly in terms of the ultimate economic outcome), although it has not completely disappeared in all situations. From a legal point of view, a merger is a legal consolidation of two companies into one entity. This gives more clarity and I agree with your original assessment Mole, Andrew

ANDREW VAN RENSBURG said...

further to my comment, the single entity in this case being the common data base.

Steve Hayes said...

It sounds like bad news to me. Does it now mean that information that I contributed freely to FamilySearch, to freely share with other genealogists, will now be sold to others by MyHeritage?

That is what happened when they entered into a "strategic partnership" with GenCircles -- see here MyHeritage.com — another scam site? | Hayes & Greene family history for details.

Mole said...

Steve, according to Dick Eastman all records which were free before will remain so. All records requiring a sub will still require a sub. Nothing changes, apparently. There are some FAQ at https://familysearch.org/blog/en/myheritagefamilysearch-partnership-announcementfrequently-asked-questions/
Regards, Mole