{"id":936,"date":"2010-05-07T15:06:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T22:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/?p=936"},"modified":"2014-07-07T11:38:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T18:38:02","slug":"traces-of-the-past-1-0-released-for-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/2010\/05\/07\/traces-of-the-past-1-0-released-for-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Traces of the Past 1.0 Released for iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> There is a new genealogy-related App out for the iPhone \/ iPod touch \/ iPad, called Traces of the Past<\/a>. It’s in the vein of Ancestry.com Tree-to-Go<\/a> or MobileTree<\/a>. It differs from those two applications in that unlike Tree-to-Go it’s not limited to Ancestry.com, and unlike MobileTree, it’s not confined to a membership-only website\/database. It also doesn’t have family tree functionality, similar to say GedView<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Basically it acts as a front-end to genealogy databases\/collections. It’s something you would use “on the go” if you needed to do a quick lookup or if you had some time to spare and wanted to be productive.<\/p>\n

This puts it in its own class and I hesitate to lump it in with the other genealogy applications. I’m hoping to find the time to test it out at some point, as I think it does have a place on your iPhone, assuming you have memberships for the genealogy databases that it accesses, that require it. The fact that it’s not tied to any specific websites is a huge bonus in my view. Ancestry.com Tree-to-Go and MobileTree are both useful if you qualify or are paid up for their respective services, but if you don’t qualify or don’t pay for a membership, they are useless, and that’s where Traces to Go has the potential to shine.<\/p>\n

Traces of the Past supports the following databases\/collections (some may require payment\/registration) and it looks like it can be updated to access other databases in the future:
\n* FamilySearch
\n* Footnote.com
\n* Findmypast.com
\n* EllisIsland.org
\n* Others<\/p>\n

Screenshots can be found on the Traces of the Past<\/a> page here at MobileGenealogy.com.<\/p>\n

From a comment on their website, it looks like they are working on native iPad support, rather than just the 2x upscaling currently available.<\/p>\n

It’s available for $3.99 in the Apple iTunes Store<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a new genealogy-related App out for the iPhone \/ iPod touch \/ iPad, called Traces of the Past. It’s in the vein of Ancestry.com Tree-to-Go or MobileTree. It differs from those two applications in that unlike Tree-to-Go it’s not limited to Ancestry.com, and unlike MobileTree, it’s not confined … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,78,24,13,9],"tags":[21,79,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}