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Infobases was formed in 1990 by Paul Allen (not the Microsoft Paul Allen) and Dan Taggart. The company published electronic texts on floppy disk and CD-ROM. Its first product was created using the Folio VIEWS search engine software and contained the full text of the LDS Standard Works (King James Version of the Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and The Pearl of Great Price).

As more PC users purchased CD-ROM drives, Infobases began publishing religious and educational libraries on CD ROM. Its best selling product of all time was the 1997 LDS Collectors Library, a CD ROM that contained more than 1,400 books for Latter-day Saints.

In May 1996, Infobases was recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the 500 fastest growing privately held companies in the U.S. Infobases acquired an interest in Ancestry, a small genealogy publishing company in Salt Lake City, and then acquired 100% of Ancestry on January 1, 1997.

In July 1997, Infobases acquired Bookcraft, a 50-year old LDS publishing company, and spun out Ancestry as a separate company run by Paul Allen and Dan Taggart. The merged company continued to operated under the name Bookcraft.

In 1999, Bookcraft was acquired by Deseret Management Corporation, a for-profit corporation owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and its operations were merged into the operations of Deseret Book. The LDS Collectors Library CD ROM product was replaced by Gospelink 2001.

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