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==History== | ==History== | ||
{| class=" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
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! scope="col" | Date | |||
| | ! scope="col" | Event | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | 1 July 1979 | |||
|Ancestral File | | Began accepting paper submissions. The Ancestral File replaces the 4-generation program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | April 1988 | |||
| | | Ancestral File first deployed in the FamilySearch Library with 4 million names. | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | 2 April 1990 | |||
|Ancestral File | | FamilySearch DOS published on CD-ROM. Includes Ancestral File with 7 million names. Submissions by diskette began in 1990. | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | 1993 | |||
| | | Ancestral File has grown to 15 million names. | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | 1994 | |||
| | | Version 2.31. | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | 1996 | |||
| | | Last paper submissions accepted and filmed. Diskette submissions continue. | ||
|- | |- | ||
! scope="row" | 24 May 1999 | |||
| | | FamilySearch.org debuts, including Ancestral File, which has 35 million names. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | ! scope="row" | 4 January 2003 | ||
|New edition with 40 million individuals published on a redesigned www.familysearch.org website. | | Submissions to the Ancestral File are no longer accepted. Contributors told to submit to the [[Pedigree Resource File]] (PRF) instead. | ||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | November 2011 | |||
| New edition with 40 million individuals published on a redesigned www.familysearch.org website. | |||
|} | |} | ||