brightsolid to collaborate in FHISO’s Creation of Data Standards for Family History
Brightsolid group and Family History Information Standards Organization, Inc. (FHISO) announced today that the brightsolid group has finalized its plans to become a founding member of the organization. As part of this process, brightsolid has designated organizational member representatives, including D. Joshua Taylor and Elaine Collins. The brightsolid representatives will work with other FHISO members from the global genealogical community in the development of standards for the digital representation and sharing of family history and genealogical information.
“FHISO allows for an important dialogue between technologists and genealogists,” said D. Joshua Taylor, Business Development Manager of North America for brightsolid, “brightsolid is happy to join this vital conversation and to collaborate with the global family history community.”
“We’re thrilled to know that Chris van der Kuyl and brightsolid are supporting FHISO. We have watched this team grow and succeed. It is an honor to welcome this diversified, world-class innovator and content provider to FHISO,” said Robert Burkhead, acting FHISO Chairman.
Since 1994, brightsolid group has been delivering online innovation and pioneering the expansion of the genealogy market with leading family history websites including the global network of findmypast sites plus ScotlandsPeople.gov, GenesReunited.co.uk, and britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk, together servicing more than 18 million registered customers worldwide. The sites connect people via their innovative family history software and deliver access to over a billion records dating as far back as 1200. Family historians can search for their ancestors among global collections, relating primarily to people with UK and Irish ancestry, of military records, census, migration, occupation directories, newspapers, as well as birth, marriage and death records. To learn more, visit the brightsolid website, http://www.brightsolid.com/
FHISO is a standards-developing organization bringing the international family history and genealogical community together in a transparent, self-governing forum for the purpose of developing information standards to solve today’s interoperability issues. To learn more about FHISO or become an enquiring member, visit http://fhiso.org/.
Contacts
brightsolid Data Enquiries: Elaine Collins, ecollins@brightsolid.com
FHISO General Enquiries, enquiries@fhiso.org; Membership enquiries, membership@fhiso.org; FHISO Media Relations, Anthony C. Proctor (acproctor@fhiso.org)
brightsolid.com
friendsreunited.co.uk
genesreunited.co.uk
findmypast.co.uk
findmypast.com
findmypast.com.au
findmypast.ie
ScotlandsPeople.gov
1911census.co.uk
1901census.co.uk
BritishNewsPaperArchive.co.uk
