History
Within seven years, the company had grown to its current size as a community of more than 72 million members with more than 1.5 billion online profiles. There are more than 27 million family trees and 163 million photos on the site, and the site is accessible in 40 languages.
In 2008, the company raised $15 million, when venture capital firm Index Ventures joined Accel, which had invested earlier in the company. In 2008, MyHeritage acquired Kindo, another family social network site that was popular in Europe.
In February 2010 MyHeritage acquired the Germany Online Social Networking GmbH (OSN) who has genealogy web sites in ten different languages, which are represented in over 15 countries. Among others verwandt.de in Germany, moikrewni.pl in Poland dynastree.com in the US. OSN started in June 2007 with the project verwandt.de and was able to grow within two years to over 10 million trees with over 100 million profiles. With this new acquisition, MyHeritage grew in size and added a number of new features.
In June 2011 MyHeritage also acquired the Polish Family Network, Bliscy.pl, from Polish Internet publishing company Wirtualna Polska.
In November 2011 MyHeritage acquired U.S based FamilyLink.com, a subscription service that provides access to a large database of historical content including census, birth, marriage and death records, as well as a sizeable archive of historical newspapers.
In December 2011 MyHeritage releases Mobile App for iPhone, iPad and Android.
In June 2012 MyHeritage surpassed 1 billion profiles. MyHeritage also launched SuperSearch, a search engine for historical records.
In September 2012, MyHeritage introduced Record Matching - a technology that automatically compares billions of historical records to the 1 billion profiles on MyHeritage, and alerts users whenever a match is found for a relative in their family tree.
In November 2012, MyHeritage acquired Geni, which focuses on building a family tree of the world.
In April 2013, MyHeritage released Family Tree Builder 7.0 - its popular free genealogy software - with new features including sync, unicode and Record Matches.
In May 2013, MyHeritage announced the addition of all the historic U.S. Census records from 1790-1930 to its record collection.
In May 2013, MyHeritage launched Record Detective, the first technology of its kind to automatically extend the paper trail from a single historical record to other related records and family tree connections. The technology generates new leads and discoveries by turning a single record into a door to more by automatically including a summary of additional records and individuals in family trees relating to it.
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