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FINDMYPAST.COM EXTENDS ITS FAMILY WITH ACQUISITION OF
PEDIGREESOFT.COM


LONDON, ENGLAND, May 5, 2007-- Findmypast.com, the UK’s leading
family history website, today announces its acquisition of
PedigreeSoft.com, producer of the acclaimed family tree builder program
which enables genealogists to easily organise their research and share it
with others online.

The new service will be integrated with findmypast.com’s current
genealogy research offerings, available to subscribers at
www.findmypast.com and will also continue to operate as an individual
online resource at www.PedigreeSoft.com.

The PedigreeSoft website marks a conceptual leap in genealogy
technology, as its single, easy-to-use application enables users to
organise all of their existing research online and share it online with
others. The service allows any PedigreeSoft.com user instant access to
all of his or her research from any web-enabled computer worldwide. The
web platform also lets multiple users concurrently research the same
individual, share their findings and coordinate their efforts, whilst logging
edits. These features are currently not available on any other similar
genealogy website.

Renowned genealogist Dick Eastman tipped PedigreeSoft to become “a
very popular genealogy package” in his recent review of the website last
month, praising its speed, access-anytime and sharing facilities.

Elaine Collins, Commercial Director at findmypast.com,
said: “PedigreeSoft.com’s online and community access features mark it
out as uniquely different to other genealogy software packages currently
available on the market. We feel the service will complement the
genealogy records and services we offer to family history enthusiasts at
findmypast.com, providing a significantly enhanced service for our
customers. Both our professional genealogist customers and people using
findmypast.com to explore their family tree for the first time will be able
to benefit from the easy-to-use service.”

The website’s founder, software developer and genealogist Matt Garner,
has relocated to the UK to join findmypast.com’s team.

Garner commented: “We have received wonderful feedback from our
customers since the service launched in 2005 and we're excited to
become a part of the findmypast.com family."

The basic PedigreeSoft.com service is free of charge. The price of annual
subscriptions including additional findmypast features will be announced
when the paid integrated service goes live later this year.

More information is available at www.findmypast.com and
www.pedigreesoft.com.

ENDS

For further information, please contact:
Matt Owen/ Vicky Perry
Lansons Communications
+44 (0)207 566 9708
matto@lansons.com; vickyp@lansons.com

About findmypast.com:

• April 2003: findmypast.com (formerly known as
www.1837online.com) became the first website to put the complete
indexes to all the births, marriages and deaths in England & Wales from
1837-2004 online. Previously, the only way to perform such a search
would have been either to travel to the Family Records Centre in London
or to visit certain record repositories and libraries. The births, marriages
and deaths searched are scans of originals – enabling you to view a piece
of history from your own home

• August 2004: findmypast.com added the WWI, WWII and
Consular records to the website, allowing users to search for British
nationals who were born, married or died overseas between 1761 and
1994

• March 2005: findmypast.com published the fullest
available transcriptions and images of the original documents of the 1861
census

• December 2005: findmypast.com acquired the records of
the National Archivist website, including passport applications and death
duty records

• January 2006: findmypast.com also added ‘Soldiers Died
in the Great War’ records, detailing soldiers killed during WW1

• February 2006: The most comprehensive transcription of the
1891 census was also made available, along with scans of the original
documents

• April 2006: Living Relatives database is added, which allows
you to search the current electoral roll, telephone directory (business and
homes) and directors’ details to find living people

• June 2006: findmypast.com added to the military
collection records such as the National Roll of the Great War, Army Roll of
Honour and Commemorative Scrolls

• August 2006: findmypast.com added a Cross Database search
feature that allows you to search across all the datasets in just one click

• September 2006: findmypast.com added the 1841 and 1871
census

• January 2007: findmypast.com launched
ancestorsonboard.com, a new online resource of ship passenger lists
from ships departing UK ports on long-distance voyages between 1890 -
1960

• April 2007: Title Research Group Limited won the prestigious
Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2007 for making the birth,
marriage and death indexes for England and Wales available online for
the very first time through its subsidiary findmypast.com