> The vision of both Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com is to connect and strengthen > families on the World Wide Web. To better communicate and realize this vision > the company name is changing from Ancestry.com, Inc. to MyFamily.com, Inc. > today, November 17. The name MyFamily.com more accurately reflects the desire > of the company to bring families together. > > The corporate name change does not affect the Ancestry.com brand, nor its > independent functionality as the premier resource for tracing family history > online. Ancestry.com, as well as Ancestry magazine and other Ancestry > publications will continue to be leading resources for family history > information. Ancestry.com is positioned as an integral member of the > MyFamily.com family as we move toward our goal of providing more than 1 billion > names online by the end of the year 2,000. In the past year, Ancestry.com has > expanded to include 500 million names in more than 1800 databases, upholding the > commitment to add at least two new databases each business day. > > Last year Ancestry.com launched its sister site, MyFamily.com. MyFamily.com > connects and strengthens families online in a secure and private setting. Using > advanced technology to facilitate the communication of family members, MyFamily > is easing distance and time constraints. With more than 460,000 active members > and more than 200,000 active sites, MyFamily is one of the largest family > communities online. > > As Curt Allen, CEO of MyFamily.com, Inc. explains, "Our three Internet > properties, MyFamily.com, Ancestry.com, and FamilyHistory.com together > constitute the leading service for families on the Internet. The broader > corporate name of MyFamily.com, Inc. more effectively unifies these services > under one master brand, and communicates our vision of connecting and > strengthening families - past, present and future - on the World Wide Web" > (MyFamily.com press release, Nov. 17, 1999). > > > ____________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mailto:U-A26.33.355230@anclist001.ancestry.com and hit send, or > if the email address is not clickable, simply copy the text to the right of the > 'mailto:' command and paste it into your email application and hit send. You > will be taken off the list immediately. Thank you! > > > > >