Family Pursuit Announces the Release of Private Family Trees

Renee's note: The following press release is from Family Pursuit. I just signed up for a private tree and look forward to learning more about the site. My sister-in-law wants to begin to do genealogy and I think this is the best avenue for us to share our information and work on the database at the same time. I will keep you informed of our progress.


All the major problems have been worked out, so now it’s time for a press release! We announced the following today:

Provo, Utah, Jan. 14 - Family Pursuit, a leader in online collaborative genealogy research tools, today announced the release of Private Family Trees. Designed specifically for collaboration, this unique wiki-based website is now available for private use for the genealogist who is looking for a better way to work with others. Family Pursuit’s private family trees allow researchers to share not only conclusions, but their ongoing research, sources, extractions and theories with those invited to join the trees. They are the perfect solution for sharing research with the entire family, interacting with other family genealogists, or working within a family organization or one-name study.

Some of the collaborative tools available for private family trees include:

• Inviting an unlimited number of family members to join a private tree
• Organizing and sharing ongoing genealogy research
• Creating and assigning tasks
• Sharing research logs and extractions
• Adding living individuals
• Keeping all information about living and deceased individuals private
• Involving and mentoring family members
• Participating in family discussions
• Receiving notifications of changes made by tree users
• Rolling back and forth any change made by any user
• Advanced merging and unmerging
  

Along with these new private trees, Family Pursuit continues to offer its Community Tree which has been created for genealogists to share research with the genealogy community to reduce duplicate efforts, accelerate research, and network and connect with distant relatives.

“We have found that many genealogists feel more comfortable working privately with those they already know. A Private Family Tree offers this security,” said Mike Martineau, founder of Family Pursuit. “When genealogists feel confident in their research conclusions, they will be able to easily copy their conclusions to the Community Tree for others to view and add to. A Private Family Tree also allows the inexperienced genealogist to be privately mentored by more knowledgeable relatives. We are excited to offer a bridge between those who are overwhelmed by the amount of research and those who want to help but don’t know how. We look forward to continuing our progress in developing these important tools, and being a part of bringing more people into the work.”

About Family Pursuit

Started in 2004, Family Pursuit, a Provo, Utah company, provides web-based applications to accelerate family history work by providing a framework for genealogy researchers to work together in their efforts and to easily share their ideas, theories, research and conclusions. Family Pursuit enables genealogy enthusiasts to involve family members who have never engaged in family history work, bringing families together in sharing the rewarding experience of researching, exploring, and creating a personal understanding of their heritage. Visit www.familypursuit.com for more information.