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StoryWorth
StoryWorth

The easiest way to record your family stories.

Nick Baum

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ArgusSearch
ArgusSearch

Google-like full text search in historic and handwritten documents without prior referencing

Welf Wustlich

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GenMarketplace - the market that makes getting family history help easy
GenMarketplace - the market that makes getting family history help easy

Find experts for your specific family history needs with Dutch auction pricing

Matthew Faulconer

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Lucidpress
Lucidpress

Bring your family history to life with interactive stories that let your family discover their ancestors!

Karl Sun

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Legacyshare
Legacyshare

Where Everyone Makes History

Christophe Moustirats & 2 others

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HistoryLines.com
HistoryLines.com

An instant biography for any ancestor: Explore the lifestyles, places and events that impacted their lives.

Jeff Haddon & 1 other

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TapGenes
TapGenes

Personalized health through genealogy, health histories, & genetics to help families minimize risks & live well.

Heather Holmes

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Legacy Stories Living History Library
Legacy Stories Living History Library

Your stories making history

Thomas Cormier

Historic Journals website
Historic Journals website

Search, share, and discover. Better interactive tools for genealogy and preservation of treasured family heirlooms.

Doug Kennard

Family Forest
Family Forest

Taking The Study of Family History and Genealogy into a 3D Gaming Virtual Environment

Private user & 2 others

PeerTrees
PeerTrees

Peer review for FamilySearch Family Tree

Charles Glancy

Transcription Keyboard
Transcription Keyboard

Game-changing system for transcribing old manuscripts

Paul Savage

Kindex™
Kindex™

Kindex™ empowers Family Organizations to merge and transcribe family documents as an evolving, accessible volume.

Kimball Clark

My Legacy, My Story
My Legacy, My Story

Preserve and share your life story One Chapter at a Time.

Brett and Cory Hansen

Book of Life Histories
Book of Life Histories

Get to know your family tree through photos, stories, and other memories in your Book of Life Histories.

Richard Wells

GText
GText

Extract People, Relationships, Places, and Entities from written text like books and obituaries

Earl Mott & 1 other

Generasi
Generasi

Replay the timeline of your ancestors' lives

Jed Wood & 1 other

Oickos: Family Memories for Every Generation
Oickos: Family Memories for Every Generation

Web service combined with social media to store, share, and celebrate family history

Christina Chu & 4 others

My Birth Tree
My Birth Tree

Visualizing your family tree birth places

Jonathan Greene & 1 other

Virtual Pedigree
Virtual Pedigree

Genealogy Without Borders

Curtis Wigington

Xpeclr
Xpeclr

Color restoration software for historical images

Oliver Nina

A Living Tree : An Augmented Reality Family Tree by ScanED.NET
A Living Tree : An Augmented Reality Family Tree by ScanED.NET

Scan photos of family members w/ Augmented Reality! SEE & HEAR a summary of their relationships & accomplishments!

Todd Bernhard

Family Feats
Family Feats

Create, share and find the amazing feats your ancestors have done

Aaron Shelley

NetFam Collaboration
NetFam Collaboration

Distributed maintenance of a private family tree.

Gaylon Findlay

Lucky Graves
Lucky Graves

A system for headstone sampling, text extraction, storage, and probabilistic search.

Alan Olsen

Relacipes
Relacipes

Preserve Your Home-Cooked Family Traditions

Alex Sopinka

KeepTraditions
KeepTraditions

KeepTraditions sends a weekly email reminding your family of their traditions

Kevin Coleman & 1 other

IoTree: Framed Art + IoT = More Connecting with your Ancestors
IoTree: Framed Art + IoT = More Connecting with your Ancestors

Internet-connected framed art that connects your family with your ancestors as it reminds you of their life events.

Mark Tucker & 3 others

Seedling 3D Framework
Seedling 3D Framework

Three dimensional framework for the representation of genealogical relationships

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RootsBid
RootsBid

We walk where your ancestors walked

Eric Proffitt

Ancestor Guru
Ancestor Guru

AncestorGuru.com gives people a new way to learn about their ancestors through games and puzzles.

Joshua Rhoades

FamilySearch Store
FamilySearch Store

Using FamilySearch as a search engine for searching Amazon, YouTube and historical news.

Devin Pigera

atripdownmemorylane
atripdownmemorylane

Atripdownmemorylane-Multimedia Archival System for Family Historians, Genealogists, History and Genealogy Societies

Don Wilson

The Family App
The Family App

Add and Share your Information and Family Tree with Friends and Family

Haridarshan HS

Poppy Prose
Poppy Prose

Tell us your stories, and let us turn them into clean, professional, magazine-quality short stories

Ian Davis

GenusTree
GenusTree

Boost your interest in genealogy. Visualize your family in new ways.

Cameron Shellum

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