mandag 24. desember 2012

MyHeritage overtar også Family Tree DNA

Det er ingen tvil om at MyHeritage har ambisjoner om å ta opp konkurransen med ancestry.com. Det er ikke mer enn en måned siden MyHeritage overtok Geni. Denne gangen overtar de det suverent ledende selskapet innen DNA og slektsforskning, Family Tree DNA. Følgende epost mottok jeg for noen dager siden:
 
Dear Valued Customer,

As you may have seen in the news, a very important and exciting development for our community has recently taken place. Family Tree DNA has teamed up with MyHeritage to integrate our DNA tests to their international customer base of 65 million users. This represents an additional step by Family Tree DNA in expanding into new markets for the benefit of our more than 7,000 Surname and Geographic Projects.

Family Tree DNA and MyHeritage are now teaming up to offer you a unique, limited time only discount on access to more than 4 billion historical records in MyHeritage’s specialized historical records collection - SuperSearch. SuperSearch is the perfect companion to DNA for boosting your personal ancestral research.

The door now opens for our community to make use of the MyHeritage SuperSearch data collections at a significantly reduced price. The following is included in this excellent family history resource:

- More than 4 billion historical names
- One billion exclusive family tree profiles
- Birth, marriage, death and census records
- World's largest collection of historical newspapers
- Millions of tombstone photos
- Hundreds of exclusive online databases
- Millions more records added each month

Record Matching
With this unique offer, you will also enjoy full access to MyHeritage’s Record Matching Technology at no additional cost. This is an extremely powerful feature that matches historical records to names in your family tree with no work on your part. After taking the offer below, you can automatically receive Record Matches for free. Learn more about Record Matching and see the praise this technology received from some of the world’s foremost genealogists.

All of these features are now available to Family Tree DNA customers and friends for unlimited one year access at the special price of $69.95. This represents a savings of 42% over the regular price. Plus, you will receive two additional months for free. This offer is only available until December 31, 2012 and it is a h-u-g-e bargain compared to prices of the competitor Ancestry.com which are 4x higher.

Together, Family Tree DNA and MyHeritage represent the most advanced combination of genealogical research tools available in the market.

Take advantage of this offer or learn more.


Kind regards,
Max Blankfeld
Vice-President, Operations and Marketing
Family Tree DNA
www.familytreedna.com
"History Unearthed Daily"



26.12.2012: Se også kommentarer.

2 kommentarer:

Unknown sa...

Hei Vidar- og fortsatt God Jul,

Jeg kan ikke forstå hvordan du kan lese denne annonsen so om at MyHeritage har tatt over FTDNA. Hva jeg forstår er at de to firmaene sammarbeider litt og jeg får litt billigere adgang til MyHeritage database.

mvh
Svein

Vidar Øverlie sa...

Hei Svein,

Mange takk for kommentaren din. Det er mulig at jeg har tok i litt mye, men da jeg fant en MyHeritage nettside som presenterte autosomal testen Family Finder som et MyHeritage produkt som man kunne bestille på deres nettsider så ga det inntrykk av at det var mer enn et samarbeide. Jeg har idag prøvd å finne denne nettsiden igjen uten å lykkes og URL http://www.myheritage.no/dna-tests bringer meg til en ikke relevant nettside, så her må det ha skjedd noe de siste dagene.

MyHeritage påstår at de totalt har over 65 millioner "medlemmer" og over 330 000 "medlemmer" i Norge. FTDNA blir små i en slik sammenheng og et samarbeide vil ofte føre til at den minste blir slukt.

At MyHeritage oppnår en slik interesse i Norge viser at det bør være et enormt potensiale for slektsforskerforeninger i Norge.

Ønsker deg en fortsatt God Jul og Et Godt Nytt År!


mvh
Vidar