Ancestry.com Uses Silverlight for Genealogy Browser
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The Generations Network runs one of the most popular genealogy websites in the world – ancestry.com. One of the things they wanted to provide their users was a simplified way to browse and edit their family tree. Even smaller trees can become a bit unwieldy and very large trees can become nearly impossible to navigate – particularly when you talk about using html based technologies. The team at TGN decided to leverage a Rich Internet Application platform and after surveying the existing technologies decided that Silverlight was the best technology to use in this situation.