Published: November 23, 2009
This Thanksgiving, Find Your Mayflower Ancestors at OneGreatFamily.com
SPRINGVILLE, Utah - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Does your family tree include any of the 102 passengers who braved
stormy seas aboard the Mayflower? Did your ancestors celebrate the first
Thanksgiving dinner with the Pilgrims and Native Americans? At OneGreatFamily.com,
you can enter your family genealogy and see if it connects to any of the
Mayflower passengers.
OneGreatFamily.com
hosts a gigantic, interconnected family tree with more than 200 million
names that have been submitted by genealogy enthusiasts in their own
family trees. You can potentially uncover and connect information about multiple
generations to your own tree.
To Uncover Mayflower Connections:
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Everyone can go to the Mayflower
Ancestors page to see the family trees of passengers, read an
interesting history of the ship and its passengers, and find links to
related web sites.
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Join
OneGreatFamily.com (free trial or full membership) and begin
entering your own family tree (to increase your odds of finding a
connection, try to enter at least 18 names).
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OneGreatFamily's search engine makes connections to any other branches
of your family tree that are already at the site (this may take a
while - we plow through more than 18 TRILLION comparisons of family
facts and relationships every week as new names are added).
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To see if you're related to a certain passenger, click the Family
Dashboard tab, and scroll to the Relationship Calculator. Choose How
is this person [select yourself] Related to this person
[select Search by Name and enter the name of the passenger]. The
database will churn through hundreds of millions of names and outline
the relationship (if it exists).
Plan Ahead for the Holidays
Do you know someone who's interested in genealogy and would love to
explore other family trees and make new connections? A full-year gift
subscription for OneGreatFamily.com is only $59.95. To order, visit Onegreatfamily.com/GiftCertificate.
About www.OneGreatFamily.com
OneGreatFamily.com was founded in 1999 by Alan Eaton with a vision to
merge all of the separate family trees created by genealogists into one
unified tree. Today more than 200,000,000 individuals have been
submitted. Users can try the site with a free 7-day trial or purchase a
full-access subscription. The company is privately held, based in
Springville, Utah, and has approximately 30 employees.
Note: All trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
OneGreatFamily.com
Claire
LaBeaux, 801-491-0335 x275
claire.labeaux@onegreatfamily.com
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