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Subscription genealogy website Ancestry.com just
announced it has acquired San Francisco-based 1000memories.

1000memories, founded in 2010, has a website where people can store and share digitized
photos. Shoebox, the site’s accompanying
mobile app for iPhone and Android, lets you use a cell phone camera to “scan” and
upload documents to the site.

The app has been downloaded more than 500,000 times since its launch.

Ancestry.com has already begun incorporating the app into its services. To mark this
announcement, 1000memories has launched a new version of ShoeBox for iOS (iPhones),
enabling Ancestry.com members to post photos directly to ancestors profiles in their
Ancestry.com member trees.

“This is the first step in a broader plan that will see tighter integration of the
two services in the coming months,” according to Ancestry.com’s
official press release.