The following news release was received from Claire LaBeaux, Public Relations Director, OneGreatFamily.com:
November 23, 2009, Springville UT – 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:
➢ Join OneGreatFamily.com and begin entering your own family tree (to increase your odds of finding a connection, try to enter at least 18 names).
➢ 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).
➢ 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.
➢ To see if you’re related to a certain passenger, log into OneGreatFamily.com and click the Family Dashboard tab. 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.