FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 4, 2000
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Elaine Fraim, Media Coordinator
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Family Tree Climbers has a New Home!
GenealogyToday.com is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Family Tree Climbers ("FTC") project created by Lesa and John Karwoski. The FTC project consists of a series of services and database for helping researchers find answers to all sorts of genealogy questions.
"The page has become so popular, that even with the help of volunteers and working in excess of 8 hours a day on the page, we just couldn't keep up," explained Lesa. "Bringing the site to GenealogyToday.com will give our members a greater level of service."
In addition to joining the GenealogyToday.com family, FTC is moving away from a subscriber-based service, making the resources collected in the past two years free to all researchers. "We struggled with the decision to make FTC a membership page, but it was just too expensive to continue without some kind of financial offset," added Lesa. "I'm very pleased to see that by joining GenealogyToday.com, we are able to move past this unfortunate obstacle."
The merger was made possible through a partnership with FamilyTree-Forest.com, run by Jim Sheetz. Jim's site will house the FTC obituary and GEDcom databases. "Without Jim's involvement we would not have been able to make this happen so quickly," mentioned Illya D'Addezio, owner of the GenealogyToday.com web site.
Visit the Family Tree Climbers home page.
About Family Tree Climbers
FTC has been in operation since January of 1998. "The page has grown beyond what I ever expected it to," commented Lesa Karwoski, who co-founded the site with her husband John. "The mission of Family Tree Climbers was to form a close-knit community of researchers, which is exactly what we have done."
About GenealogyToday.com
GenealogyToday.com has been serving a growing audience of genealogy enthusiasts since 1999 and earning accolades along the way. The
site features original articles from several experienced genealogists and writers, along with unique databases and search tools.
Visit our "contact us" page for additional inquiries.
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