Genealogy.com Launches Family Home Pages — the Easiest Way to Share Family Trees Online, for Free

November 30, 1999 (FREMONT, CALIFORNIA) — Genealogy.com, LLC, formerly the Broderbund genealogy unit of Mattel Interactive, today announced a new resource called Family Home Pages, an online tool that makes it easy, fast and free to post family trees and other genealogical content, including photos, online. With today's introduction of Family Home Pages, anyone can go to www.genealogy.com and within minutes post their family tree online. This new resource provides family history enthusiasts with an easier way to share their findings with their own families, as well as share information that can lead to new discoveries about their family trees.

"Most people are able to complete a few generations of their family tree without a problem. But as they build beyond the first couple of branches, their search for genealogical data becomes increasingly difficult," said Rob Armstrong, Chief Executive Officer of Genealogy.com. "Based on our decade of experience in this industry, we've found that a good way for family history enthusiasts to find the information they need is by sharing family trees with one another. The Internet has been a tremendous boon for amateur and professional genealogists because it allows for easier one-to-one connections that can lead to new findings about one's family."

Making a Family Tree is as Easy as 1-2-3

To create a Family Home Page, just visit www.Genealogy.com and click on the link that says "Create or Edit Your Home Page". From there, users are provided with simple step-by-step instructions that help them create their own home pages. They can also post family trees, photos, images, text-based files, and can even link to other Web sites. Family names are then indexed through Genealogy.com's powerful search engines so that they can be found through the Internet FamilyFinder on www.genealogy.com or by browsing by name. To protect the privacy of living family members, users are encouraged not to post any of those names to their family tree.

Users can upload as much as ten megabytes of data to their Family Home Pages. Detailed instructions are provided for how to reduce the size of files such as photos and other images. If users have already created a family tree in a software program -- any software program -- they will be provided with instructions on how to upload the existing family tree.

More Tools and Resources Available to Help Family Trees Grow

In addition to its new Family Home Pages, Genealogy.com offers family history enthusiasts a wealth of tools and information online and on CD-ROM. On its Web site, the company offers free interactive tools and research sources, as well as www.GenealogyLibrary.com, a subscription site encompassing genealogy research materials and databases. Genealogy.com's broad line of genealogy software programs -- including the number-one-selling Family Tree Maker -- are designed to meet the needs of people with varying levels of expertise and interest in genealogy. The growing collection of more than 200 Family Archive CDs offers historical data from U.S. marriage, Census, birth and land records, passenger and immigration lists, military records, family pedigrees, the World Family Tree^TM and other sources. The World Family Tree is a collection of more than 42 volumes of actual family trees featuring 85 million people, contributed by customers from the US and overseas.

About Genealogy.com, LLC

Genealogy.com, LLC is based in Fremont, California and has 90 employees. A decade-long leader in the genealogy technology space, Genealogy.com's family history information and resources are available on the corporate Web site at www.genealogy.com, with subscription services available at www.GenealogyLibrary.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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