FAMILY.ME INTRODUCES EASY AND FUN FAMILY TREE TO HELP FAMILIES SHARE, DISCOVER AND PRESERVE MEMORIES

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Family.me’s tree builder is easy, interactive, and makes adding family members feel like playing a game.

Free, Private Social Network Evolves Family Tree Building; Launches Six Famous Family Trees Including the Trumps, the British Royal Family, and Game of Thrones Enabling Fans to Learn More About Their Favorite Families

Pasadena, Calif. (March 15, 2017) – Family.me, a private social network bringing families together to discover, share, and preserve memories, announced today that it is now out of beta. The recent upgrades to the family tree building application make it the easiest and most enjoyable for families to document and share memories of the past and present with each other, and bring their family story to life.

Available on both desktop and mobile, Family.me provides an interactive, collaborative experience for families to research and discover their family history together, while simultaneously helping them document and share the precious memories being made today.

Family.me includes three main features to help families engage and discover:

  1. Family Tree- Users begin the journey of family discovery by building out their core family tree. Family.me’s tree builder is easy, interactive, and makes adding family members feel like playing a game. The tree begins to come to life as users add family members themselves or invite others to collaborate on the tree together.
  2. Memories- Users can easily add and tag memories (photos, videos, stories) within the tree manually or via social network import, and begin to scrapbook their family’s unique story digitally on the tree. Adding a memory is as easy as any social media update, but on Family.me, memories are shared only with family members to maintain privacy. Another interesting facet of the memory tags feature is that users can tag other family members in the memory, or tag specific descriptions to easily search for the memory, or similar ones, later. (E.g.: Users can find all of the “wedding” related memories to view a synopsis of family wedding traditions over the years).
  3. Free Historical Records- In order to help users complete their entire ancestral story, Family.me provides FREE access to millions of ancestry records such as marriage, death, military, and more. The site seamlessly enables users to bridge their family’s past with the present.

“We first launched Family.me in 2015 to help families discover more and remember together through a collaborative family tree. The latest version of Family.me delivers this experience in a fun and interactive way that challenges the way we traditionally think about stodgy ancestry sites,” said Harrison Tang, CEO and Co-founder of Family.me. “The tree is fast, intuitive, and very easy-to-use. The design is friendly and appeals to everyone, young and old. Families no longer have to feel like documenting their history is a chore. Family.me makes this important milestone fun, collaborative, and on-going while bringing our most cherished loved ones together on one platform.”

For more information and to start creating your family tree, visit www.family.me.

Famous Family Trees

For the first time, Family.me has also released a series of family trees for fans of six of the most famous and intriguing families.. The public trees let fans learn about some of the most complicated family connections for fictional TV families and document the juiciest, most popular events for present-day and historical famous families. Family.me features public trees for:

About Family.me

Family.me is a private social network that brings families together, one memory at a time. Through its unique online family tree builder, users can collaborate with family members to map out their history while sharing precious moments with loved ones near and far. The free and easy-to-use tool helps users upload photos and videos, tag keywords, share on social media and search across millions of historical records, all while effortlessly organizing their memories into one seamless experience. Build your family tree today at www.family.me. Follow Family.me on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. 

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PRIVATE SOCIAL NETWORK LAUNCHES HELPING FAMILIES ‘REMEMBER TOGETHER’

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Family.me brings loved ones together through interactive family trees, collaborative memory sharing and historical records.

 

Pasadena, Calif. (February 10, 2015) – Family.me, a private social network bringing families together to discover, share and preserve memories, launched today. The site combines the real-time and collaborative sharing capabilities of social networks with the latest tools in family tree-building and record search to help families sustain their legacies. Research shows families that understand their history are happier, have stronger relationships and more grounded children. Family.me empowers users to discover their legacies and share past and present memories through building a family tree, searching historical records and adding present memories. The new site celebrates its public debut at the largest family history and technology conference, RootsTech, in Salt Lake City from February 12 -14.

 

Many Americans have lost sight of their heritage. One-third of Americans cannot name any of their great-grandparents and 22 percent of Americans don’t know what either of their grandfathers did for a living. Despite this lack of knowledge and decline in oral storytelling, many Americans express interest in knowing more about their families. Family.me revives family storytelling through a safe, intuitive social network.

 

“We created Family.me to give all members of the family a game-like, mobile-friendly and easy way to share both past and present memories,” said Harrison Tang, chief executive officer, Family.me. “Rather than one family member doing all of the genealogy work, parents, children, cousins, siblings, aunts and grandparents alike can piece together their information, such as looking up historical records, adding recent photos or documenting precious memories on the timeline.”

 

The free website includes the following key features:

  • Tree Builder – Easily add relatives’ names and relationships to the virtual family tree and map out family history.
  • Invite Family Members – Invite relatives through either the social network importer or an email invitation and work together to research the past and document memories.
  • Memory Sharing – Share photos and more with your family members. Upload your favorite childhood photos or document memories and share them as they happen with the mobile app.
  • Record Search – Search millions of birth, death, war and marriage files to learn about ancestors. Records include more than 70 years of US Census and social network data.
  • Mobile-first Design – Family.me’s mobile-first design brings genealogy and family-focused technologies together in ways that are current for today’s families, whether they are always on-the-go or spread throughout the country.

Family.me is working with the non-profit family history organization, FamilySearch, to make more than one billion of FamilySearch’s historical records available to Family.me users, while also making Family.me’s easy and collaborative tools available to FamilySearch members.

 

The first 10,000 users to sign up for a Family.me account will receive special benefits for life, including free record searches and more.

 

For more information and to begin a family tree, visit www.family.me.

 

About Family.me

Family.me is the first private social network where families come together to discover, share and preserve their memories. Created by the founders of people search engine Spokeo, Family.me empowers users to discover their legacies and share past and present memories through building a collaborative family tree and searching historical records. For more information and to begin a family tree, visit www.family.me. Follow Family.me on Facebook or Twitter.

 

About FamilySearch

FamilySearch International is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit, FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Patrons may access FamilySearch services and resources free online at FamilySearch.org or through over 4,600 family history centers in 132 countries, including the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

 

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