Is Family Origins going to be discontinued by Parsons Technology?
18. June 1998 I don’t recall the exact time, but about ½ a year ago, Parsons Technology was sold by Intuit to Brøderbund. Brøderbund sell Family Tree Maker, another genealogy program. At the time, a lot of users were panicking as to whether Family Origins would now be discontinued. I am in no way affiliated with Parsons, Brøderbund or Formalsoft. The following comments are my own, but to a certain extent based on messages from Formalsoft on the FO mailing list. Formalsoft are the creators and owners of Family Origins. Parsons Technology are the distributors of Family Origins, they license the product from FormalSoft. You can pretty much tell from the “Help > About Family Origins” menu option. Who owns the name I don’t know. If Parsons Technology (Brøderbund) did decide to discontinue Family Origins, it would reappear through some other channel, maybe with a different name. There is in fact a new version in the works.
