New York, NY -- April 28, 2008 -- New York City-based Familybuilder™, the fastest growing genealogy application on the Internet , today announces that esteemed genealogist Dick Eastman has joined its advisory board. Dick Eastman is the author of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter ( http://blog.eogn.com), a daily electronic publication with more than 50,000 readers. Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter is a pivotal source of information and support for the genealogy community. Dick Eastman joins high profile technologist Scott Heiferman, the CEO of Meetup, on the Familybuilder Advisory Board.

Familybuilder is fast becoming the Internet's favorite social tool for people interested in genealogy and family history. Unlike stand-alone online genealogy services like Ancestry.com and Geni.com, Familybuilder is positioned to leverage 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.

Dick Eastman kept his first genealogy database on 80-column punch cards. He's been a leading evangelist preaching the benefits of technology to both national and international genealogical organizations. His foray into the world leveraging connected networks to further his pursuits in family research and genealogy dates back to starting the Genealogy Forum -- one of the Internet's first online forums for genealogy-- on CompuServ in the early 1980s. Eastman also wrote "Your Roots: Total Genealogy Planning On Your Computer" published by Ziff-Davis Press and is former editor of Genealogical Computing magazine. Eastman served as a consultant and guest on the Ancestors television series on PBS.

"Familybuilder is doing some amazing things for genealogy," said Dick Eastman.  "There are millions of people who use Familybuilder's Family Tree application to help them build their family trees and research their family history online and this is giving the science of genealogy a serious boost. Connecting with family members on social networks is a far cry from researching family roots from the local library with a pad and pencil. Familybuilder represents the future of genealogy and I'm very happy to come on board as an advisor.

"We're excited to welcome Dick Eastman to our advisory board," said Ilya Nikolayev, CEO of Familybuilder "Dick's prowess in the world of genealogy is second to none, especially in the intersection of genealogy and technology. We're honored to have Dick on our team to help Familybuilder chart ahead and prove to the world how genealogy within social networks is the new frontier for both professional and arm- chair genealogists everywhere."

Familybuilder™ is a NYC 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, and MySpace. Familybuilder can be found on Facebook at http://apps.facebook.com/familytree, on Bebo at http://apps.bebo.com/familytree and on MySpace at http://myspace.familybuilder.com or via the company's website at http://www.familybuilder.com. New York-based Familybuilder launched in June 2007 and is privately held.