FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Ancestry.com
set
to
collaborate
about
community
standards
Ancestry.com
is the world's largest online family history resource, with 1.9 million paying subscribers. More than 10 billion records have been added
to the site in the past 15 years. Ancestry users have created more than 34 million family trees containing approximately 4 billion profiles. In addition to its flagship site, Ancestry.com offers several localized Web sites designed to empower people to discover, preserve and share their family history.
FHISO
is a
standards-setting
organisation
bringing
the
international
family
history
and
genealogical
community
together
in a
transparent,
democratic
forum
for
the
purpose
of developing
information
standards
to solve
today’s
interoperability
issues.
To learn
more
about
FHISO,
visit
our
website,
http://fhiso.org/ .
Please
join
us in
welcoming
Ancestry.com
and
their
member
representatives
to FHISO!
CONTACT:Anthony C. Proctor, FHISO Media Relations
(acproctor@fhiso.org)Robert M. Burkhead, FHISO Acting Chair
(rmburkhead@fhiso.org)Andrew G. Hatchett III, FHISO Acting Secretary (agh3rd@fhiso.org)
Comment: This is an important announcement, in this Blogger's opinion. This group was formed out of the BetterGEDCOM project, that started about 18 months ago. That project started because two end users could not successfully share their genealogy research.
As I understand it, the word "organisation" is spelled this way specifically to reflect the international scope of this project.
As part of the group that started BetterGEDCOM, there was a lot of talk about "getting the right people to the table". I think that this announcement is a step in making that table real.
Congratulations to ALL!!
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