Genealogy.com® Adds Generations® to its Genealogy Software Product Line

Generations Family Tree and Family Tree Plus are Available at Retail Stores and Online

June 25, 2002 (FREMONT, CALIFORNIA) — Expanding its commitment to provide a complete offering of genealogy products to consumers interested in researching family history, Genealogy.com, a subsidiary of A&E Television Networks recently acquired the Generations software product line. Broderbund will distribute Generations Family Tree and Generations Family Tree Plus at retail stores nationwide and on-line through www.broderbund.com.

Catering to beginners, advanced users and experts in the genealogy hobby, Genealogy.com is dedicated to bringing consumers the best and most comprehensive research resources, products and services available to aid users in discovering and documenting their family history. Generations software, offering easy to use tools to build family trees, joins the Genealogy.com product family that includes America's #1 selling family tree program, Family Tree Maker. Both Generations Family Tree and Family Tree Plus include a one-month subscription to Genealogy Library — an online collection of census, birth, marriage, death, land, military and other records.

The Generations software product-line is a perfect fit for the Genealogy.com product portfolio. It extends the genealogy product offering, providing an additional alternative to building a family tree. The acquisition of Generations is another way for Genealogy.com to satisfy users with products that facilitate genealogy research and add fun into building family legacies.

About Genealogy.com

Genealogy.com is a subsidiary of A&E Television Networks (AETN). Headquartered in Fremont, CA, it designs, develops, and markets genealogy software applications and online resources that enable family history enthusiasts to research, organize, and document their heritage at home or away. Developing software since 1984, Genealogy.com continues to be the leader in the genealogy technology space, producing the #1 selling family tree software — Family Tree Maker — for more than a decade. The company also provides extensive online genealogy resources, including subscriptions that give researchers continuous, easy access to valuable family history information, such as the 1900 Census, International & Passenger Records, World Family Tree, and Genealogy Library. Other AETN Web sites include AandE.com, HistoryChannel.com and Biography.com.

About A&E Television Networks

A&E Television Networks, a joint venture of The Hearst Corporation, ABC, Inc. and NBC, is an award-winning, international media company offering consumers a diverse communications environment ranging from television programming, magazine publishing, web sites, books, music CDs to DVDs/home videos, as well as supporting nationwide educational initiatives. AETN is comprised of A&E Network, The History Channel, The Biography Channel, History International, AETN Consumer Products, Biography Magazine, AETN International, and Genealogy.com.

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