"We're excited that in less than a year of offering the Family Tree service so many people are building their family trees and creating bonds with their relatives online," said Ilya Nikolayev, CEO of Familybuilder.  "We've taken the approach of offering family tree building tools on social networks and have tapped an enormous amount of interest from people wishing to connect with their family members.   As we enter into our second year, we'll be offering more tools and services to make researching family history fun and enjoyable."

Unlike stand-alone online genealogy services like Ancestry.com and Geni.com, Familybuilder's Family Tree leverages the social graphs of multiple online social networks at once to help people find and communicate with relatives, build family trees, preserve family history, track family activity and more.

Familybuilder will soon introduce services that let people find and connect with family members regardless of the social network that they may be on.

Familybuilder™ is a NYC-based software company that builds genealogy and family-oriented applications for online social networks.  The company's flagship product, Family Tree, is the first genealogy application to be introduced on Facebook, Bebo, MySpace, Hi5, and Orkut.  The company raised a $1.5 million dollars Series A round of financing in February 2008, led by London-based DN Capital.   Familybuilder launched in June 2007 and is privately held.  Further information and links to the Family Tree applications on the various social networks can be found at http://www.familybuilder.com.