Might You Have an Oscar®-Winner in Your Past?
Genealogy.com Offers Celebrity Family Trees for Past Academy Award®-Winners and Contenders for 2001

Brand New Family Trees Can Now Be Found on Current Academy Award® Nominees Sissy Spacek (In the Bedroom) and Halle Berry (Monster's Ball) only on Genealogy.com

March 14, 2002 (FREMONT, CALIFORNIA) — You've ogled their red carpet, Oscar®-night outfits from years past. You've speculated on the "sure bets" for the 2001 awards. But have you considered, for a moment, that you might be related to one of the many celebrities who call the silver screen home?

While excitement surrounding the upcoming Academy Awards® has everyone buzzing about last year's favorite films and performances, fans might actually share common ancestry with the stars and not even know it. Genealogy.com, America's favorite online destination for family research, has posted a Special Oscar® Edition Celebrity Family Trees feature, including the all-new addition of the family trees of two talented best actress nominees who'll be duking it out at this year's ceremony: Sissy Spacek and Halle Berry.

Additionally, past Oscar® winners Marlon Brando (On The Waterfront, The Godfather), Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, Forrest Gump), Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur), William Holden (Stalag 17), Bing Crosby (Going My Way), Clark Gable (It Happened One Night) and Donna Reed (From Here to Eternity) all share one thing in common — their family trees are also available for fans to delve into at Genealogy.com. Also featured are the family trees of Irving Berlin, winner of the Academy®-Award for Best Original Song ("White Christmas" from 1942's Holiday Inn) and the boxing legend Muhammad Ali, whose fascinating life is depicted in the Michael Mann-directed bio-pic, Ali, which is up for several Oscars®.

The Celebrity Family Trees section of Genealogy.com gives consumers one of the few online resources to access the family histories of famous actors, athletes, and historical figures. New additions to this page include such well-known figures as John Dillinger, James Garner, John F. Kennedy, and Charlie Sheen, whose illustrious family includes actors Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez. To find out if you're related to an Oscar-winner or Nominee past or present, log onto Genealogy.com prior to this year's Academy Awards® on March 23rd, click through to "Celebrity Trees," under "Community" off the home page.

Whether a genealogy newcomer intent on tracing your Irish-American history or a genealogy buff, discover how easy it is to research, preserve and share family history with America's favorite family tree software, Family Tree Maker. With March 17th just around the corner, get a head start with Genealogy.com (www.Genealogy.com) and Family Tree Maker Web Edition, an online sample version of the #1 selling software program, which helps grow a family tree in as little as a few minutes — and all in just three easy steps. Utilizing information entered, a powerful search engine and vast databases containing more than 750 million names will assist you in sourcing your ancestors. Online family collaboration, personal home pages and an enormous virtual community all help to uncover the roots of any family tree. Family Tree Maker may be purchased at Genealogy.com or at stores nationwide.

What Are the System Requirements?

A CD-ROM drive, and one of the following programs: Family Tree Maker for Windows® version 3.02 or higher, the FREE Family Archive Viewer version 3.02 or higher, or Family Tree Maker for Power Macintosh.

About Genealogy.com

Genealogy.com is a division of A&E Television Networks (AETN). The company enriches the lives of its customers by providing the tools, resources, and community that empower them to uncover and share their unique family stories. Headquartered in Fremont, CA, it designs, develops, and markets genealogy software applications and online resources that enable family history enthusiasts to research, organize, and document their heritage at home or away. Developing software since 1984, Genealogy.com continues to be the leader in the genealogy technology space, producing the # 1 selling family tree software — Family Tree Maker — for more than a decade. The company also provides extensive online genealogy resources, including subscriptions that give researchers continuous, easy access to valuable family history information, such as the 1900 Census, International & Passenger Records, World Family Tree, and Genealogy Library. Other AETN Web sites include AandE.com, HistoryChannel.com and Biography.com.

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