Nov 10, 2003

A Portal to the Past; MyFamily.com Makes Available Immigrant Records Online

Over Ten Million Immigration Records Spanning Five Centuries Now Available

PROVO, Utah, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- MyFamily.com, Inc. today announcedthe launch of the U.S. Immigration Collection, a unique resource providingimmigration-focused content in one convenient, growing online research tool.

Available as a subscription through Ancestry.com, a member of the MyFamily.com network of Web sites, the U.S. Immigration Collection provides a dynamic resource for discovering information about an ancestor's first steps on the land of their hopes and dreams. "The U.S. is a country founded on immigration. Immigrants dreaming of better lives found their way to these shores in crowded ships -- fleeing war, disease, poverty, and famine," said Tom Stockham, president and CEO of MyFamily.com, Inc. "When America called, more than 57 million individuals answered, flourishing despite the odds. This means it doesn't take long for many people to run into a foreign-born ancestor as they trace their family history.

Today, MyFamily.com is making the search for immigrant ancestors easier." This ever-growing online resource will give subscribers continuous access to new information and names, making the new subscription increasingly valuable to the family history researcher. Anyone can now conveniently search for ancestors who may have emigrated from many countries to multiple ports inthe United States during a five-century period. The U.S. Immigration Collection includes passenger lists for all of America's major Atlantic ports including New York, Boston, Philadelphia,Baltimore, New Orleans and San Francisco. Today, more than 10 million individuals whose names appear in ships' passenger lists, port arrivals andnaturalization records are included in the collection. These records allow researchers to pinpoint an ancestor's homeland and learn more about their journey to America. The records contain valuable information such as the immigrant's name, names of family members, dates of vital events, port and date of arrival, and much more. Some of the records found in the U.S. Immigration Collection include: The New York Passenger Lists, 1851-1892 Likely the most significant genealogical resource for tracing immigrantancestors to the U.S., this database will ultimately cover more than 11 million immigrants spanning over 40 years. Eighty percent of all immigrants to America came through the port of New York. Available online exclusively at Ancestry.com, the New York Passenger Lists have been indexed by name for the first time, making it possible to search for ancestors by name. View the actual passenger list images and see who your ancestors traveled with. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s This database covers the broadest time period and geography including allU.S. and Canadian ports. Includes exclusive and hard to find records such as: naturalization records, church records, family & local histories, voterregistrations, census records, land records, personal diaries and more. The U.S. Immigration Collection will continue to grow as more names andrecords are added weekly, growing to well over 25 million names in thecollection in the coming year. The collection can be accessed online at http://www.Ancestry.com. It is available to subscribers for $19.95 monthly, $39.95 quarterly, or a $79.95 annual fee. Current Ancestry.com subscribers can addthe new annual subscription to their account for only $39.95. To learn moreabout the U.S. Immigration Collection go to http://www.Ancestry.com.

About MyFamily.com, Inc.
MyFamily.com, Inc. is among the largest online subscription businesses, with over 1.25 million paid subscriptions and more than 10 million people using its Web resources every month. An interactive media company, MyFamily.com connects families with their histories and one another. The company enriches the lives of its customers by providing the tools, contentand community that empower them to find the people most important to them andshare their unique family stories. The MyFamily network of Internet propertiesincludes MyFamily.com, Ancestry.com, Genealogy.com, and RootsWeb.com. The company also publishes Family Tree Maker(R), the #1 selling family tree software, Ancestry Magazine, Genealogical Computing Magazine, over 50 booktitles, and numerous databases on CD-ROM. SOURCE MyFamily.com, Inc.

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