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MyHeritage is a website for discovering, sharing and preserving family history. It offers online, mobile and software platforms to its users worldwide. Users create their own online family tree, search for ancestors in billions of historical records, share and preserve photos and videos, and can discover and connect to new relatives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=MyHeritage.com )〕 In 2003, CEO Gilad Japhet founded MyHeritage in his living room in the moshav of Bnei Atarot, just outside Tel Aviv, Israel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=myheritage.com )〕 Gilad started the company as a result of not finding a tool that satisfied his own genealogy needs. With 42 languages, 80 million users, 1.6 billion profiles and 28 million family trees, MyHeritage is a popular destination for family history research. In February 2012, the company moved its headquarters to new offices in Or Yehuda, Israel, near Tel Aviv. Additional offices exist in Tel Aviv, Israel, Utah, USA; and California, USA. == History == In 2008, the company raised $15 million, when venture capital firm Index Ventures joined Accel, which had invested earlier in the company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MyHeritage Takes 180 Million People Profiles To War With Geni )〕 In 2008, MyHeritage acquired Kindo, a popular European family social network site. In February 2010, MyHeritage acquired the Germany Online Social Networking GmbH (OSN) which had genealogy web sites in 10 languages representing over 15 countries. These included, among others, verwandt.de in Germany, moikrewni.pl in Poland and dynastree.com in the US. OSN was founded in June 2007 with verwandt.de and grew to over 10 million trees with over 100 million profiles within two years. With this new acquisition, MyHeritage added a number of new features and expanded its reach and numbers.〔(MyHeritage Buys Germany's OSN, Now 540 Million Profiles Strong ), by Sarah Lacy, Feb 2, 2010, TechCrunch〕 In June 2011, MyHeritage acquired a Polish family network, Bliscy.pl, from the Polish Internet publishing company Wirtualna Polska. In November 2011, MyHeritage acquired US-based FamilyLink.com, a subscription service that provides access to a large database of historical content including census, birth, marriage and death records, as well as a sizeable archive of historical newspapers.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 released its first version of its Mobile App for iPhone, iPad and Android. In 2012, MyHeritage surpassed 1 billion profiles. MyHeritage also launched SuperSearch, a search engine for over 5.7 billion historical records. In September of the same year, MyHeritage introduced Record Matching, a technology that automatically compares billions of historical records to the 1.5 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, an online site with an emphasis on building a worldwide family tree. In 2013, MyHeritage released Family Tree Builder 7.0 – free genealogy software – with new features including sync, Unicode and Record Matches.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=myheritage.com )〕 In 2013, MyHeritage also announced the addition of all the historic U.S. Census records from 1790–1930 to its record collection.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=myheritage.com )〕 MyHeritage also 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=myheritage.com )〕 In October 2013, MyHeritage entered into a strategic partnership with leading genealogy organization FamilySearch, bringing billions of global historical records and family tree profiles spanning hundreds of years to MyHeritage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=myheritage.com )〕 MyHeritage launched a major family history initiative in the Nordic countries in December 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=myheritage.com )〕 In 2013-2014 MyHeritage was selected by Business Newspaper Globes as the #1 most promising startup in Israel out of 4800 startups surveyed.〔http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-1000886638〕 In 2013, MyHeritage was listed by Deloitte as one of the top 10 fastest growing technology companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.〔Deloitte Fast 500〕 In February 2014, MyHeritage teamed up with BillionGraves to digitally preserve the world's cemeteries through a global initiative.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=myheritage.com )〕 In April 2014, MyHeritage announced reaching the milestone of surpassing 5 billion historical records.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=myheritage.com )〕 In October 2014, MyHeritage partnered with EBSCO Information Services to bring MyHeritage to libraries and educational institutions worldwide.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Business Wire )〕 In October 2014, MyHeritage announced a strategic collaboration and product integration with 23andMe .〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Business Wire )〕 In November 2014, MyHeritage announced strategic partnerships in the Netherlands and a first national TV advertising campaign.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Business Wire )〕 In November 2014, MyHeritage integrated its matching technologies to RootsMagic〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Business Wire )〕 and Family Historian Genealogy Software.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Business Wire )〕 In December 2014, MyHeritage launched Instant Discoveries™ to discover ancestors and create an online tree in seconds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Business Wire )〕 This was successfully tested on passersby in New York City. Watch their emotional reactions in this short (video ). In December 2014, MyHeritage announced it would digitize and add more than 120 million historical records from Denmark as part of an agreement with the Danish National Archives to index Census and Parish records from 1646 to 1930.〔http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141222005392/en/MyHeritage-Digitize-Add-120-Million-Historical-Records#.VJkgpF4AOk〕 In January 2015, MyHeritage announced that their family history software, Family Tree Builder, is available for Mac users.〔http://blog.myheritage.com/2015/01/family-tree-builder-now-available-for-mac/〕 In February 2015, MyHeritage reaches milestone of over 6 billion historical records with the addition of 900 million records to its global digital archive as part of a stratgic partnership with FamilySearch.〔http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150202005576/en/MyHeritage-Adds-900-Million-Records-Global-Digital#.VROwOfmUfHl〕 In May 2015, MyHeritage released its redesigned mobile app for iOS and Android. 〔http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150507005485/en/MyHeritage-Releases-Redesigned-Mobile-App-Family-History#.Vazj-Pmqqkp〕 In July 2015, MyHeritage launched its breakthrough Global Name Translation™ Technology to eliminate language barriers in family history research. 〔http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150708005840/en/MyHeritage-Launches-Breakthrough-Global-Translation%E2%84%A2-Technology-Power#.Vazj-fmqqkp〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「MyHeritage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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