Ancestry.com Elects Facebook's Mike Schroepfer To Board Of Directors

PROVO, Utah, Jan. 20, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ancestry.com Inc. (Nasdaq:ACOM), the world's largest online family history resource, today announced the addition of Mike Schroepfer to its board of directors. Schroepfer, currently Vice President of Engineering at Facebook, becomes Ancestry.com's eighth director and increases the independent majority on the Board. He has been appointed as a Class II director and will stand for re-election at the next annual stockholder meeting.

"I'm incredibly pleased to welcome Mike Schroepfer to our board," said Tim Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer of Ancestry.com. "As the senior engineer for one the world's great internet product and technology platforms, Mike can help us as we seek to make our service even more amazing and useful for anyone interested in who they are and where they came from."

"Ancestry.com has built a wonderful product and a great business," said Mike Schroepfer. "I'm excited to join the board at a time when the company has such an opportunity to further build out its product experience. I look forward to working with the board and Ancestry.com's management team as the company pursues its unique mission."

As Vice President of Engineering at Facebook, Schroepfer leads the company's engineers who write the code used by hundreds of millions of people each day.  Before Facebook, Mike was the Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla Corporation, where he led the global and open product development process behind Firefox.  He was formerly a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems, which acquired his company, CenterRun. He began his career working at various start-ups including a digital-effects software company, where software that he built was used in several major motion pictures. Schroepfer holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University and has filed two U.S. patents.

About Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com Inc. (Nasdaq:ACOM) is the world's largest online family history resource, with nearly 1.4 million paying subscribers.  More than 6 billion records have been added to the site in the past 14 years.  Ancestry users have created more than 20 million family trees containing over 2 billion profiles.  Ancestry.com has local Web sites directed at nine countries that help people discover, preserve and share their family history, including its flagship Web site at www.ancestry.com.  

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