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"The new features on Ancestry.com are gaining incredible momentum, and our users are uploading photos at an unbelievable rate, demonstrating the power of online family history collaboration," said Tim Sullivan, CEO of The Generations Network, parent company of Ancestry.com. "We couldn't be more pleased that so many people are preserving and safeguarding these priceless, personal records by uploading and sharing them through Ancestry.com. While we continue to grow the world's largest online collection of family history documents by acquiring, digitizing and indexing original source documents, we're even more excited by the scope and potential of the personal content now coming from individual families all over the world. Every single one of these 1 million photographs is a precious memory now preserved for future generations and sharable with invited family members, as well as distant cousins yet to be discovered through Ancestry.com."
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Ancestry.com is a site dedicated to family history. It’s a place to learn about family members who came before. With more than 24,000 historical databases that include 5 billion names, the odds of finding a relative are pretty good.
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OREM, UT (January 9, 1998) — Ancestry, Inc. announced today that it has selected Global Center to host its popular genealogy web site. Global Center, located in Sunnyvale, California, hosts sites for internet leaders such as Netscape, Yahoo, and Quote.com.
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PROVO, Utah, March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ancestry.com, the world's largest online resource for family history which recently discovered Al Sharpton's shocking connection to Strom Thurmond, revealed today that presidential hopeful Barack Obama has Irish branches in his family tree. More than a century and a half ago, 19-year-old Falmouth Kearney, Obama's third great-grandfather, sailed from Ireland, landing in New York harbor on March 20, 1850. Settling initially in Ohio among Irish relatives, Falmouth married, had eight children, and eventually moved to Indiana. Three of Falmouth's daughters married three brothers with the last name Dunham. Obama's mother is descended from one of these couples -- her birth name was Dunham.
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To celebrate the launch of the new site, Ancestry.com is offering registered users a chance to travel back to the land of their ancestors' heritage through the Ancestral Vacation Sweepstakes. Every photo upload* of a non-living ancestor to your personal member tree (maximum of 5 per day) automatically enters your name into the drawing. The competition will run throughout the entire month of September, with the grand-prize winner receiving an all-expense paid trip to visit an ancestral place of origin of their choice. In addition, 10 winners will be chosen each week for additional 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes.
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PROVO, Utah, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Ancestry.com, the world's largest online family history resource, today announced that more than 1 million online family trees have been created since the site's new tree-building and sharing features launched in late July 2006. In building family trees, users have added an estimated 150 million names, uploaded 400,000 photos and attached 10 million family history documents directly from Ancestry.com's 23,000 historical records collections.
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