[Opengenalliance] Mormon church’s FamilySearch joins forces with Ancestry.com

[todd.d.robbins at gmail.com]

Two of the world’s largest family history research organizations are
joining forces in an effort they say will bring 1 billion historical
records online.

The LDS Church-operated FamilySearch International and the Utah-based
company Ancestry.com announced a deal Thursday in which they will
collaborate to bring online the church’s vast worldwide collections of
family-history records.

Ancestry.com CEO Tim Sullivan said while details need to be worked out, his
company planned to pour more than $60 million into the effort over the next
five years.

*Source:
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/56830408-79/records-ancestry-com-online.html.csp
*


This is great news! Though I think we continue efforts to encourage the
adoption of open licensing of this digitized content via our organization
and others. I'd be willing to help coordinate a team to work with
FamilySearch, Ancestry, OGA/ORG, OKFN, et al. Anyone, interested in joining
me?

Cheers!

-- 
Tod Robbins
Digital Asset Manager, MLIS
todrobbins.com | @todrobbins <http://www.twitter.com/#!/todrobbins>
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