We have a very exciting announcement to share with you! Pearl Street Software, maker of GenCircles and Family Tree Legends, has merged with MyHeritage.com. In the first of many positive developments that will come from this merger, Family Tree Legends and GenCircles are now 100% free!
Why did you merge with MyHeritage.com?
So we can grow! The development team from Pearl Street Software has joined the much larger MyHeritage team so we can bring you amazing new tools to aid your search. MyHeritage brings vast resources that will enable technologies like Smart Matching to greatly improve, to the benefit of everyone!
What will happen to GenCircles and Family Tree Legends?
GenCircles, the Family Tree Legends software program, and the Family Tree Legends Records Collection are now free. That's right - in one announcement, we have made the highest-rated genealogy software program, the massively popular GenCircles site, and over 400 million records in the Family Tree Legends Records Collection completely free! This is a significant day for genealogists everywhere!
What about support?
With the backing of MyHeritage, we can now offer much improved support.
For email support on our various services, please email ftl@myheritage.com for FTL or gencircles@myheritage.com for GenCircles.
What else can we look forward to?
- MyHeritage has made significant improvements to our Smart Matching technology in the past 6 months and these improvements are being released now for the first time.
- MyHeritage's Family Tree Builder 2.0 has just been released and contains many of the technologies found in Family Tree Legends. Family Tree Builder has support for real-time Smart Matching and is available in 17 languages. You can automatically import your FTL file into Family Tree Builder if you choose to. You can use both programs completely for free - we urge you to see which one is right for you!
- MyHeritage has launched an initiative to map and connect all of the world's family trees using Smart Matching technology, and is well on their way with more than 100,000 trees!
Can we trust MyHeritage as a good steward for our data?
One of the reasons we chose to merge with MyHeritage.com was their absolute respect for users' data. GenCircles built its reputation on respecting its users and their data - we are proud to say that MyHeritage.com shares this respect with us!
This is an exciting day in our company's history and we couldn't have done it without the help of our amazing users! The joined teams of MyHeritage and Pearl Street Software are committed more than ever to providing the best genealogy products and services, and keeping them free!
Best Regards,
Cliff Shaw
President & CEO
Pearl Street Software
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I'm pretty excited about this merger. I have used GenCircles for quite a while and it is an excellent site. I was just playing last weekend on MyHeritage with my daughter. We had a great time with their face recognition feature. I have never used Family Tree Legends genealogy software but I have used Family Tree Legends Records Collection. They have some
birth, death, marriage, military, land, court and probate, biography & history, geography & reference databases. I'm excited that they plan on growing, maybe they will finally get my New York vital records for me!
If you haven't visited these sites it's time to check them out.
See ya tomorrow, for tomorrow is always another genealogy day!
1 comment:
Myheritage is free only if you have 250 names or less, after that they now charge. I started before the merger and had way more than the 250 names. I now cannot access my file unless I up grade to a fee account. I started with gencircles and they said they woud never charge, but now they are not in charge any longer, that has changed.
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