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Familybuilder Announces Low Cost DNA Tests

by David Heyerman on October 1, 2008

  • Family tree building site, Familybuilder, has quickly grown into a gigantic network of over 20 million people.
  • They’ve just announced that starting on the 15th of October, DNA testing will be available for it’s users.
  • The tests are mail-in based and cost $59.99, a low price compared to competitors like Ancestry.com’s $149 charge.
  • Users will receive maternal (maDNA) and paternal (yDNA) information as well as a finite look back in time.

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MyHeritage Buys Kindo, Moves Towards Family Monopoly

by Jason Wilk on September 22, 2008

  • MyHeritage.com announced today they have acquired UK based family geneology site Kindo.com.
  • Started by two ex-Skype engineers, Kindo doesn’t have many users, but their technology is superior to its competitors.
  • Major competitor to MyHeritage is Geni.com, who has been starting to slip in their family tree battle. Their last strongpoint to stay in the space was their user experience and technology over MyHeritage.
  • As soon as MyHeritage integrates Kindo technology, the family monopoly will be won.

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MyHeritage Boasts Facial Recognition

by David Heyerman on September 9, 2008

  • The family based social network, MyHeritage, just announced the addition of facial recognition software.
  • This software automatically tags photos of family members as they are uploaded.
  • All it takes is one normal profile pic for the tagging to work.
  • MyHeritage competes with sites like Geni and has acquired a global total of 25 million users.
  • A great tool for sharing photos and other content within your family as well as creating family trees.

When will Geni announce a similar technology?

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Which Family Tree Site Do You Use?

by Jason Wilk on September 7, 2008

  • MyHertiage has just announced that they have grown 70% this year and raised another $15m (Index and Accel)
  • They are claiming 260m profiles and 25m registered members on the family tree service.
  • Geni, the other competitor in the space, only has 2m registered users and their traffic is now more than 30% less than MyHeritage.com

[polldaddy poll="910699"]

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