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Acquisition of RootsWeb.com

The vision of MyFamily.com is to connect and strengthen families through the World Wide Web by connecting families with their past, present, and future. The acquisition of RootsWeb.com supports that commitment. RootsWeb.com is one of the oldest, largest, and most popular genealogy sites on the Internet. By adding the RootsWeb.com site to its vast genealogical resources, MyFamily.com will further extend its offerings in family history research and further enhance its leading position in genealogy research and family services on the Internet. Currently over 600 million records and 2,500 databases are online at Ancestry.com, with over half freely accessible to Web users and more databases added each business day. The RootsWeb.com site will continue to be free to all users and maintain its own unique Web address, www.RootsWeb.com. Read the press release.

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