Genealogy.com Internet Family Archives Make Actual Data Available, Not Just Links

Second Installment of Titles Offers Information on Over 12,000,000 People from Immigration Lists and Vital Records

July 11, 2000 (FREMONT, CALIFORNIA) — Genealogy.com, LLC today announced the addition of 10 more titles to its popular Internet Family Archives, making it even easier for people to find their ancestors fast on the Internet. Users of this valuable tool do not need an accompanying genealogy software application or separate viewing software—all they need is Internet access. The collection now holds a total of nearly 12 million names in 21 different compiled resources.

"By expanding our popular collection of online titles in the Internet Family Archives, we continue our stated objective of putting more and more genealogically relevant data on the Internet," said Genealogy.com Chief Executive Officer, Rob Armstrong. "We're making it easier for people to research their family history by putting actual data online, like information from immigration lists and vital records, not just links to various web sites."

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Internet Family Archives make it easier and more convenient to conduct research at home without having to spend money and time on traveling to faraway libraries and dusty government archives. The power of the Internet allows users to find ancestors fast, compared to the less efficient way of researching by searching through microfilm or reading old books. With the Internet Family Archives, research can be conducted from any computer, PC or Mac compatible, with Internet access, at any time. The Internet Family Archives are composed of a variety of family history information from marriage indexes to international records, from personal family histories to biographies. Included in this round of new titles for Internet Family Archives is the Passenger and Immigration List Index—our most popular title that will help users find arrival information from over 3 million immigrants who arrived in U.S. and Canadian ports. The collection also includes information from marriage indexes of five different states including Texas, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey and Indiana. Now, all this research can be done in the comfort of home, 24 hours a day. With access to the Internet Family Archives, users are able to create their own personal "online data library" with records stored on Genealogy.com's secure network. The 10 new titles found on Internet Family Archives include:

Passenger and Immigration List Index	Records for approximately 3,280,000 individuals who arrived in United States and Canadian ports. The materials include published compilations of passenger lists, naturalization records, church records, family and local histories, voter registrations, and land registrations.
Baltimore Passenger and Immigration List, 1820-1852	Details the arrivals of approximately 89,000 individuals who sailed to Baltimore in the nineteenth century.
Passenger and Immigration Lists: Boston, 1821-1850	Contains listings of approximately 161,000 individuals who arrived at the port of Boston, Massachusetts from foreign ports between 1821 and 1850.
Marriage Index: Texas, 1850-1900	Approximately 272,000 individuals who were married between 1850 and 1900 in select Texas counties are indexed on this Family Archive.
Land Records: AL, AR, FL, LA, MI, MN, OH, WI, 1790-1907	Contains approximately 1,645,000 records from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management. They show who obtained what land from the Federal Government, and when it was obtained. Source documents include homesteads, cash sales, warrants, private land claims, swamp lists, state selections, and railroad lists.
Marriage Index: Connecticut, 1635-1860	Contains information on approximately 134,000 individuals who were married between 1635 and 1860 in select Connecticut towns.
Genealogical Records: New York, 1675-1920	A comprehensive index of more than 600,000 individuals who lived in New York between 1675 and 1920. It indexes a broad range of New York records including passenger lists, land records, city directories, and census records.
Marriage Index: Maryland, 1655-1850	Contains listings of approximately 258,000 individuals who were married in Maryland between 1655 and 1850.
Marriage Index: New Jersey, 1680-1900	Brings together previously uncollected marriage records for approximately 179,000 individuals married in New Jersey between 1680 and 1900.
Marriage Index: Indiana, 1680-1900	Contains information on approximately 292,000 individuals who were married in Indiana between 1851 and 1900. It includes previously uncollected information from the Indiana counties.

A Vast Array of Genealogy Resources Online

The previously released 11 titles on Internet Family Archives included family genealogies (including Mayflower Genealogies), international census records, and immigration records. Additionally, Genealogy.com hosts a comprehensive list of online genealogy resources including the World Family Tree online, which provides users with access to 98 million names in 143,000 user-contributed trees. Because they are composed of actual family trees, finding an ancestor in a World Family Tree yields not just one name, but an entire branch of the family tree! These valuable tools can save literally years of research. Genealogy.com also hosts GenForum, the most widely used genealogy message boards with more than 4 million messages posted. Family history enthusiasts can use the tools at www.genealogy.com to do everything from utilizing a step-by-step guide detailing how to get started in genealogy, to searching for information on their own family members. Subscription services are also available at GenealogyLibrary.com, which offers census images and indexes. Pricing, System Requirements and AvailabilityPricing for individual Internet Family Archive titles range from $19.99 to $49.99. Internet Family Archives can be viewed using any Internet-ready computer that has Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and higher or Netscape Navigator 4.0 and higher. Internet Family Archives can be accessed on the Internet at www.genealogy.com/ifa/.

About Genealogy.com, LLC

Genealogy.com, LLC was launched with $37.5 million in funding from major media corporations in November 1999. Genealogy.com, which previously operated under the corporate umbrella of Broderbund Software, is acknowledged as a decade-long leader in the genealogy technology space. The company is based in Fremont, California, and has approximately 90 employees. Information on Genealogy.com and its services and resources can be found at www.genealogy.com. All of its award-winning products and services are offered online and through direct sales; its software programs are also distributed at retail by the Broderbund Software unit of Mattel Interactive.

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