Family history deal showing real benefits to fast-growing market
The deal, completed under brightsolid’s previous brand, Scotland Online, brought together its online genealogy service, ScotlandsPeople, with findmypast.com’s growing business.
The amalgamation of the two websites has enabled a wider audience to access the most complete suite of UK family history records available online.
This has benefited the genealogy industry by enabling people to access hundreds of millions of records in one place. brightsolid recently won the tender for the 1911 England and Wales census records, which will be available during 2009.
findmypast.com – previously owned by Title Research Group – established itself as an innovative genealogical service with a commitment to customers and quality that have made it the number one destination website for family history researchers.
It was the first company in the world to put the complete Births, Marriage and Death indexes for England and Wales online, later adding its census and unique passenger list records.
Chris van der Kuyl, Chief Executive of brightsolid, said;
”We were delighted to welcome the findmypast team into the fold earlier this year, and already we have achieved some great results from building a really first-class family history resource. “Family history enthusiasts worldwide are benefiting from brightsolid’s experience in developing customer facing services and the combination of the two businesses is bearing fruit already.”
