The new year brings changes and advancements in genealogy. Interest in genealogy is snowballing, and so is the technology to keep up with the growth. Family Tree and Who Do You Think You Are are magazines produced in Great Britain and both magazines asked genealogy companies what they have planned for this coming year. The following is a summary of the information they collected.
MyHeritage is planning on releasing a new tool that will make it easier to find new discoveries. This new tool will include billions of data from family trees, records, and DNA. MyHeritage will reach 100 million users and will add hundreds of millions of new historical records. They also plan on enhancing their DNA with new tools and adding more ethnicity records to their DNA results.
Ancestry has an extensive collection of parish records and plans to expand those collections. Ancestry also plans on enhancing their DNA with more detailed ethnicity regions including new regions for the UK and Ireland and improved cousin-matching.
FamilySearch has Rootstech coming February 27- March 2, 2019 and is the world’s largest family history expo. FamilySearch is also expanding their Rootstech experience to London, October 24-26 at the ExCel Centre. Interactive personal discovery experiences that are now available through interactive kiosks at Family History Centers will be available on FamilySearch. You will discover the events that happened the year of your birth. It searches for information for the names and births years of family members and ancestors. Record My Story will help you record stories and memories and allow you to add text or audio of FamilySearch and to download it when you want. FamilySearch will also focus on FAN (Friends, Associates, and Neighbors) relationships. FamilyTree search will be updated to provide better and faster results. FamilyTree will have names and limited facts available through Google search without being signed into FamilySearch.org. In the Memories section, you will have the capability to organize memories within an album and add an audio recording and connect it to an image.
FindMyPast is partnering with Living DNA allowing their trees to connect with the Living DNA results to help you find family members. This linking is exciting news for those who have taken Living DNA tests.
2019 is going to be an exciting year! Hang on to your hats and prepare for an exhilarating ride to find your ancestors. Happy trails to you!
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