The two main genealogical database companies serving libraries apparently called a truce and decided to split the family history market. MyFamily.com <www.myfamily.com> and its former rival ProQuest <www.proquest.com> have forged an alliance that lets MyFamily.com maintain its steadfast grip on the individual-consumer market while ProQuest rules the library audience.

At the end of June, MyFamily.com granted ProQuest exclusive rights to sell Ancestry Library Edition, a version of MyFamily.com's popular Ancestry.com <www.ancestry.com > databases, to libraries for their patrons' research. Ancestry Library Edition replaces AncestryPlus, which MyFamily.com previously offered through educational-database giant Thomson Gale (a ProQuest competitor). AncestryPlus will be available to currently subscribing libraries until their subscriptions expire.