8/1/2000
By Melanie Rigney
MyFamily.com offers an online home for your family's photos and events, space for genealogy files, even free vacations. Sounds great — but, like many families, sometimes it's dysfunctional.
MyFamily.com will remind you of some members of your own family — a little rigid, quirky, slow to react and forgetful of promises made. But it's hard not to love it anyway.
It's a simple concept: The company hosts as many free, password-protected Web sites of 75MB as you want to administer. You get everyone in your family who's online to join, post pictures, list special family days and exchange stories. In return, MyFamily.com Inc. gets eyeballs for its advertisers and exposure for the company's other genealogy-related products, such as Ancestry.com 
and FamilyHistory.com.
The first MyFamily.com sites went up in 1998 and by February 2000, the company counted more than 325,000 active sites with 800,000-plus members. Those sites featured more than 2.2 million photos, 2.7 million family news items and 4.4 million family events (birthdays, anniversaries, reunion planning sessions and the like).