Infobases Timeline

1990:

Infobases, Inc. formed by Paul Allen and Dan Taggart.

Infobases embraced the use of Folio's CD-publishing technology.

Initially a "two-man basement operation", Infobases' first product was the LDS Quad set of "Standard Works" scriptures, first available on floppy disk.

December 1995:

Infobases released both a new DOS version and a new Macintosh versions of its popular LDS Collector's Library publications on CD-ROM.

May 1996:

Infobases owners Paul Allen and Dan Taggart bought partial ownership of book publisher Ancestry, Inc., and created Ancestry.com.

June 1997:

Infobases bought Bookcraft, Inc., a publisher of mostly LDS books, and became a separate division of the new company, which took the Bookcraft name.

Bookcraft had been an in-house user of Folio's LivePublish technology to manage its various documents.

December 1998:

MyFamily.com was formed by Bookcraft/Infobases owners Paul Allen and Dan Taggart.

April 1999:

Bookcraft (including its Infobases division) was sold to Deseret Book (Deseret Management, Inc.)

Here is another Infobases/Folio crossover, in that Brad Pelo, one of the principles of the new-in-1999 NextPage (which bought the exclusive license to Folio from Open Market), was the president of Bookcraft.

November 1999:

Ancestry.com changed its name to MyFamily.com.