Big data and DNA together to bring you a traceable source

Where are we? How do we get here? Where do we come from? Where are we going? These are the questions that human beings are always exploring in the process of development. According to foreign media technology TheVerge reported that the eternal search for human ancestry is heading for the outcome. The reason is that the next stage of genealogy, searching and researching the human ancestry, will soon come to fruition. The vast amount of cumulative, digitally accessible data combined with the latest advances in DNA testing means that humans are confused about their families - who are they? How do they get here? How do they relate to us? - these are quickly answered. In fact, the quest for a family history (assuming a family history exists) will not last more than 20 years: most mysteries are rapidly disappearing.

Son of God

Interest in ancestors can be traced back to history itself, but for the first human being of the Earth, only the royal family and the super-rich can study the kinship with the aim of consolidating power and wealth. However, the current approach to the genealogy of modern amateurs is rooted in the New England Historical Genealogy Association, founded in Boston in 1845, using family tree promotion system charts. John Farmer developed a family tree in the 1820s and continues to date. Over the next 10 years, a similar association was established in New York City, after which it was common to look for relationships with founding fathers and other revolutionary war characters. "When the American Revolutionary Girl was founded, the Mayflower Society was also created," said Thomas McEnter. "This is what I call the first phase of genealogy." As soon as the United States of America was established, pedigree in the United States came into being.

Less than 50 years after the establishment of the New England Historical Genealogy Association, the most important role in the genealogy of the United States was born, namely the Salt Lake City in the west.

Thomas McEnter said Salt Lake City is a "Mecca" holy site for family history studies. Because Salt Lake City is also home to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its Family History Library, the Utah Patriarchal Society was founded in 1804; the Family History Library, the largest genealogical library, and its online portal FamilySearch, average daily page views of about 10 million.

One of Mormons' basic doctrines is family tree

Salt Lake City was founded by Brigham Young and some other late Saints in 1847, and Salt Lake City's population numbered just over a million, half of whom were members of the late Saints Church. Donald Anderson, senior vice president of Family History Library Sponsorship & Partner Services, said Mormonism believes in "eternal family," convinced of the family's ability to "survive beyond life." Therefore, research ancestors is "an important part of Mormonism." Standing in the microfilm of a large bank, he said, "We are all children of God."

One of Mormonism's basic teachings is the study of genealogy, as its members believe that Mormonism can baptize into death for its ancestors. It is controversial that the acts of the baptizing agents by the agents - that is, without knowing their ancestors or without the permission of their ancestors because the ancestors have usually passed away - are not the focus of most genealogical scholars. FamilySearch and Family History Library staff members welcome Mormons and non-Mormons because the use of libraries has gone far beyond their religious goals and post-saints firmly believe their message is widely distributed and all information is free.

The Family History Library is a horned, irregular, modern building that is open six days a week and all services are free. The Family History Library has gathered the world's largest collection of documentation, books and microfilms related to pedigree research, attracting 500,000 visitors each year, many of whom are genealogy enthusiasts or professional genealogists who do not Mormons of faith.

The late saints started in the late 1930s and they undertook a massive program of searching for genealogical records and making micro-films on a global scale. With the help of volunteers and missionaries, late saints visited the global government and churches, which have large volumes of records kept until the turn of the 20th century, using 2.4 million microfilms. The family history library also recruited 4,600 volunteers working at family history centers around the world. The Family History Center is a small research facility where sponsors can order micro-movies and books at major libraries and send them through offline offline factories. But in a dirty library (the family history center is an artistic palace, virtually empty), discovering data in long-forgotten, yellowed documents will move quickly to history. Thanks for the internet.

"It looks like the internet is genealogical"

The study of family members is painstaking and often thankless until the internet appears. Like most people, if you start from scratch - maybe you know the names of the four grandparents, little is known about them - it's almost impossible to start research. Thomas McEnter's study began in the 1970s, he said, "had to go directly to the archives or warehouses." He was fortunate to attend a university in Washington, DC, and the National Archives was in Washington, D.C., where all the information collected in the United States census and military records was kept. "It's all paper version," he said. The records are either hardcopy or microfilm. Access to the information needs to go to the field, if the field visit fails, you need an e-mail command. Of course, all records can not have an index, so you have to know exactly what you need: If you are looking for grandparent's death certificate, but do not know the exact date of death, then things are hard to do. Of course, all family tree charts, which are also hardcopies, make it difficult to determine the relationship between one cousin and another cousin. Until mid-2000, almost all of this information was not available online. Almost all of the records now have an electronic version, except for some major records (national law determines their availability) and many military service archives.

Big data combined with DNA testing

In March, nearly 7,000 people arrived at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City for the weekend at RootsTech. RootsTech is an annual technology-focused pedigree conference sponsored by the non-profit family FamilySearch and other big family businesses. Current genealogical techniques are not always completely reliable, but RootsTech talks about and encourages the two to develop relationships. Traditionally, nearly retired people (mostly women) want to find this hobby of family-based organizations, which are currently in the $ 1 billion-a-billion industry and have a growing younger population.

In the past few years, finding and charting family history has become a trend and the technology to start searching becomes easier. Many businesses, such as Ancestry.com and FamilySearch, spent nearly a decade doing online searches of their tools, documentation and data for Internet users, which revolutionized the genealogical research - while drastically reducing Search process to enter the threshold. Things that past old people or professionals with disposable incomes are able to get involved are quickly becoming more mainstream pursuits. With just a steady network connection and a laptop, you can get a glimpse of the past.

DNA testing has cost thousands of dollars a few years ago and provides very little genealogical information. Now, more and more consumers choose to use DNA testing, dating back hundreds to thousands of years, to get tons of information about human ancestry that they never dreamed of.

Ancestry.com, a family tree rooted in the City of Prospect

Ancestry.com is headquartered at the foot of a hill in the city of Plover, Utah, just 45 miles from Salt Lake City. Founded in 1990, Ancestry.com was founded by Paul B. Allen (not Microsoft's Paul Allen) and Dan Taggart (also a Brigham Young graduate at Brigham Young University). The business was first known as a repository and later became known for distributing saints' publications on floppy disks. In the early years Ancestry.com was a software company that sold floppy disks with Saints publications at $ 300 per copy of Allen's car. By 1995, the two focused on the Internet, and Ancestry.com quickly became the leader in online genealogy research. The tools to create an online family tree, indexing and documenting are free to the outside world, but real-time scanning of historical documents requires paid browsing. The business earns large sums of revenue through paid users. Now, with full access, users spend $ 359 a year on services - around $ 30 a month - and over $ 2 million for paid users.

Ancestry's records are all-encompassing, meaning that everyone can build their own family tree. Once a user finds a record - for example, a 1940s census - he or she believes his grandfather's name is also in the census chart, he can link the record to the family tree with his grandfather Name of the place. The user's family tree can be private, shared with others, and linked to one another's family tree. Ancestry records powerful, focused performance and can incorporate almost all user research data. Many years ago, the same amount of human information was already filled up in the shelves of hand-made binder and copy paper binder, and it was not easy to share it.

Ancestry.com is the most famous company in the field of genealogy

Tim Sullivan, CEO of Ancestry, gave a keynote speech at RootsTech where he spent 10 years with Ancestry. Prior to that, he was COO at Match.com, the largest dating dating site in the world, then served as president of Match, and he also worked for TicketMaster and Disneyland. Under Sullivan's leadership, Ancestry has become one of the most well-known and probably the most successful companies in the field of pedigree. But he is still approachable, unlike most other CEOs. As we walked through the convention center lobby and wanted to find a quiet place to talk to, the others surrounded and smiled at us, occasionally close to him. "We've been searching for the past five years," but now "full socialization of family history." People working together - whether they know it or not - improves their own personal family tree and improves business data, Because businesses can put together their information together.

Sullivan's point of view is very correct, Ancestry's early success is almost entirely attributed to data search, Ancestry provides a less than matching but continuous improvement of the search algorithm. Genetic search engines such as Google can not tell names and names, which often means all the differences of such work, especially some ancestors whose names are quite common, such as Smith or Taylor. But Ancestry (and other similar businesses) has created a purpose-built search engine for a single purpose that can handle one requirement: the name associated with the last name, including different combinations of changing spells, the date range, Specific area or wide-area document search, a wide geographical location (such as a country) or a specific geographical location (such as a small town), some birth dates, place of birth, others (such as children of relatives). The search engine handles about 45 million searches per day (Google search data is about 3 billion), may not be perfect, but the function is very powerful, and constantly changing the upgrade. Search results feedback every hundreds, according to the degree of matching rankings. Ancestry can also automatically push "clues" by tapping into a large number of documents and contact databases - through amazing pictorial family tree leaf displays - based on the user's family tree, pointing to potential relatives and primary sources. It also recently debuted Facebook Share, allowing users to link their own and their family's Facebook account to the family tree, which also enhanced corporate search capabilities.