For your information: NEW FEATURES >From Ancestry.com Dear Ancestry.com Customer, We'd like to introduce several important new features at Ancestry.com that will allow you to join with your relatives around the globe in building and contributing to your family tree. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Exciting New Features at Ancestry.com: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ONLINE FAMILY TREE Ancestry's Online Family Tree is a free service that allows you to record, preserve, and share your family tree on the Internet without any additional software. In a matter of minutes you can enter several generations of your family in your own password-protected Online Family Tree. In addition, the Online Family Tree allows real-time, multi-user collaboration. In other words, you and other family members or friends can add, edit, or delete information in your online family tree at the same time! Visit the following address to create an online family tree: http://www.ancestry.com/surname/oft/how.htm RESEARCH REGISTRY Browse our Research Registry to see who else is researching your surname. The Research Registry contains the Research Profiles of thousands of other researchers around the world, some of whom may be researching the same lines that you are. You can search the Research Registry to discover and contact other researchers who have similar research interests. Visit the following address to search the research registry: http://www.ancestry.com/profile/researchregistry.asp SURNAME COMMUNITY At the Ancestry.com Surname Community area you can join with your relatives around the globe in building and contributing to your surname World Tree. Simply go to the address below and enter your surname (or another surname you would like to research) and you'll be on your way to exciting discoveries. http://www.ancestry.com/surname/main.asp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Additional Tools to help you build your family tree: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ANCESTRY WORLD TREE The Ancestry World Tree is composed of family tree files generously contributed by visitors like you, and is the largest collection of its kind on the Internet. Visit the following address to search the World Tree: http://www.ancestry.com/worldtree/tree.htm FREE FAMILY WEB SITE TO SHARE YOUR DISCOVERIES Create a private family Web site through our sister site, MyFamily.com Share your discoveries on your own private family Web site, free of charge. Visit the following address to learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/surname/myfamily/how.htm FAMILYHISTORY.COM MESSAGE BOARDS Post a message on these public message boards and enlist the help of other genealogists in your ancestral research, and then return the favor by sharing your findings with them. FamilyHistory.com hosts over 89,000 family history message boards that are divided into Surname, Geography and Research Topic categories. Visit the following address to search the FamilyHistory.com message boards: http://www.familyhistory.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SPECIAL OFFER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GIVE ANCESTRY.COM FOR THE HOLIDAYS We now offer a way for you to share Ancestry.com with friends and family through an Ancestry.com GIFT SUBSCRIPTION. It's the perfect gift, and we'll do all the work for you. Your gift recipient will be notified via e-mail that they have been given an Ancestry.com Gift Subscription. We'll even let you personalize the message we send to them. Click here to get more information on giving a gift subscription: http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/signupgift/subscribe.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ COMING SOON: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ANCESTRY.COM SITE REDESIGN "After months of surveys and focus groups, we feel as though our members have had a significant impact on the redesign of the site," said Scott Nelson, executive producer of Ancestry.com. "We took input from our users and integrated it into a site that is simple, functional and designed to meet the needs of all family history researchers." ____________________________________________________________