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===Current=== ====Brightsolid==== Brightsolid is a data centre and cloud-based hosting company based in [[Dundee]] that DC Thomson established in 1995 as Scotland Online. It became Brightsolid in 2008, organised into two divisions: Brightsolid Online Publishing (BSOP) and Brightsolid Online Technology (BSOT). The two divisions were split into separate businesses in October 2013, and Brightsolid Online Publishing was renamed DC Thomson Family History,<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 October 2013 |title=The Future for Family History is Digital |url=http://www.dcthomsonfamilyhistory.com/2013/the-future-for-family-history-is-digital/ |access-date=13 August 2014 |website=DC Thomson Family History}}</ref> with Annelies van den Belt as chief executive.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 August 2013 |title=Digital media executive Annelies van den Belt joins in brightsolid reorganisation |url=http://www.thecourier.co.uk/business/news/digital-media-executive-annelies-van-den-belt-joins-in-brightsolid-reorganisation-1.125467 |access-date=13 August 2014 |website=The Courier}}</ref> ====Findmypast==== Findmypast Limited (formerly DC Thomson Family History, until 2015) owns a variety of large [[genealogy]] sites worldwide, including [[Findmypast]], [[Genes Reunited]]<ref name=BBC_2013/> and [[Mocavo]]. The company had contracts to [[digitise archives]] for the [[Imperial War Museum]] and the [[British Library]], where it was making the [[British Newspaper Archive]] searchable.<ref name=BBC_2013>{{Cite web |date=30 August 2013 |title=Shake-up at online firm brightsolid |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-23893114 |access-date=13 August 2014 |website=BBC News}}</ref>
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