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Family network website MyHeritage.com has acquired BackupMyTree,
the free backup service for family tree data that launched a year ago.

BackUpMyTree automatically finds family tree files on your computer and creates a
remote backup. It’s compatible with major genealogy applications such as Family
Tree Maker, Legacy Family Tree, Personal
Ancestral File and RootsMagic.

So far, BackUpMyTree is storing more than 9 terabytes of genealogists’ data. MyHeritage.com
will continue to support the backup service and keep it free. This marks the growing
site’s sixth acquisition to date.

BackUpMyTree creator Cliff Shaw (who also created the GenCircles website and the Family
Tree Legacies program and records database, which
MyHeritage purchased a few years back) will focus on another venture, genealogy
search engine Mocavo.com.