Welcome to GenealogySearch.info - Information on Uk genealogy free access sites

Broderbund Software, Inc. and Excite Monday announced that they are joining forces to put valuable genealogy resources at the fingertips of millions of people who visit Excite each month.

The new Genealogy Section on the Lifestyle channel of Excite will include co-branded content created by Broderbund's developers for leading genealogy Web sites. Among the tools Excite users will have free access to:

* Internet FamilyFinder: the only internet search engine developed specifically for seeking genealogy information. It indexes over 130 million names from nearly 3 million web pages worldwide and is growing daily as its spiders seek out new genealogy sites. In addition, Internet FamilyFinder Agents can be commissioned to e-mail you when they find new online information about your specified relatives.

* Genealogy SiteFinder: an organized listing of more than 40,000 links to other Web sites focused on genealogically-relevant topics. Brief descriptions help you determine the value of a site before you click-through from the link. In addition, the listings are searchable and indexed by keyword.

* Genealogy "How-To" Guide: the equivalent to a 1,200-page book containing step-by-step advice, directories of court houses and genealogy libraries, form letters, and more.

* Biography Writing Assistant: contains thousands of questions to help you interview relatives to gain valuable information, as well as fun details, about events and people that shaped your family's history.

* Articles and advice: more than a hundred articles on research techniques written by well-known professional genealogists, with more added regularly.

"Excite offers consumers tools that they can use in their daily life. Our deal with Broderbund fits with that strategy by enabling us to provide valuable research tools to the growing genealogy market," said Brett Bullington, Executive Vice President of Excite. "Broderbund is the acknowledged leader in publishing genealogy data and providing useful Internet searching tools for family history enthusiasts. We selected them to develop our new Genealogy Section so that we could guarantee our users that we'd provide them with access to more of what they demand: the best Internet tools available."

"Excite is one of the most popular sites for people to start looking for information on the Web, and genealogy is one of the most popular online activities. This partnership will provide Excite's users with an easy way to search the Web for their family history, as well as valuable advice on how to do genealogy," said Eric Holstege, Vice President of Broderbund's Family Tree Maker Online Business Unit. "Broderbund will be able to reach new users who are just beginning to think about doing their genealogy online by gaining visibility with millions of Excite users."

Broderbund Software, Inc. develops, publishes and markets a broad line of interactive software for use in homes, schools and small businesses. The Banner Blue Division of Broderbund develops the No. 1-selling genealogy software program, Family Tree Maker. It also publishes more than 100 Family Archive CDs which contain information from historical government and private records, plus compilations of thousands of actual family trees on World Family Tree CDs. For the past two years, Broderbund has provided an online area for family history enthusiasts to publish information and share advice at www.familytreemaker.com. Recently, the company began a new endeavor to make rare genealogy books and databases available at an online subscription site, www.GenealogyLibrary.com.

Since its founding in 1980, Broderbund has repeatedly broken new ground, conceiving and developing families of software products with enduring customer appeal based on creativity, innovation and ease-of-use. Broderbund is committed to providing its customers with engaging products that set quality standards and take advantage of the latest technologies. Some of the Company's best-known brands include Family Tree Maker, the 3D Home Series, The Print Shop, Carmen Sandiego, Living Books, Myst and Riven. Broderbund's corporate Web site is located at http://www.broderbund.com.

Founded in 1994, Excite, Inc. is a global media company offering consumers a personalized Web start page on www.excite.com and a 'back to basics' Web search service on www.webcrawler.com, and advertisers the best one-to-one marketing services available online. The Excite Network consists of two of the largest brands on the Web, Excite (www.excite.com) and WebCrawler (www.webcrawler.com), and its subsidiaries; Classifieds2000, MatchLogic, Inc., Excite Japan Co., Ltd. and Excite UK ,Ltd. Localized versions of Excite are available in France, Germany, the UK, The Netherlands, Sweden, Japan and Australia. Based in Redwood City, Calif., Excite, Inc. (NASDAQ: XCIT) has strategic relationships with America Online, Inc., Apple Computer, Inc., CUC Investments Inc., Intuit Inc., Netscape Communications Corp., Prodigy Internet and Tribune Company.