Mind-Blowing Iceland Facts to Make You Fall in Love with the Country
The Genealogy Application
In 2010, Friðrik Skúlason, an entrepreneur in the anti-virus software industry, collaborated with deCODE, a genetics company, to create the “Book of Icelanders,” or “Íslendingabók.” This website was built using a database that deCODE had created in 1997, and was initially created to help Icelandic people trace their genealogy.
However, the project eventually expanded to include a mobile app, which allowed people from Iceland to check if their potential dates were close relatives. The feature was incredibly useful in this country owing to its small population, and it wasn’t a surprise when a group of college students created the “Íslendinga-App” to further simplify processes.
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