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World Vital Records Continues Genealogy Lineage

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There seems to be no stopping the genealogy on the Net movement. Today we learn that World Vital Records out of Provo, UT has raised around $1.2M in Series A from vSpring Capital, Provo Labs and TTP Capital Advisors.

The startup is led by Paul Allen who co-founded The Generations Network (aka MyFamily.com) where he launched Ancestry.com in 1996 an MyFamily.com web site in 1998. That company raised a staggering $90.5M in venture capital and tried but failed at an IPO. Allen joined an incubator called Provo Labs that developed several startup companies and invested in others which launched World Vital Records.

World Vital Records is a search site for genealogy data. It launched a subscription business in October 2006 and claims to already have 5K paying subscribers.

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