MyFamily.com was launched in December 1998 and quickly became one of the fastest growing community Web sites in history, gaining 1 million registered users in its first 140 days. Led by CEO Curt Allen, the company raised more than $90 million in venture capital from investors such as Intel, CMGI, AOL, Kodak, Compaq, Sorenson, Esnet, vSpring and Tango Partners. Today, MyFamily.com owns Ancestry.com, Rootsweb, Genealogy.com and is the leading genealogy company in the world. According to the New York Times (Oct 2002), sales for 2002 were projected at $62 million. 2003 sales were $99 million.

Infobases, Inc. invested in Ancestry, a 13-year-old print publishing company, in May 1996 and became its managing shareholder. Later, Infobases acquired 100% of Ancestry from its original founder, John Sittner.

By July 1997, Paul Allen and Dan Taggart were running Ancestry as a company independent from Infobases and began building the world's largest online genealogy database and subscription service. Ancestry.com changed its name to MyFamily.com in November 1999.

Infobases Inc., founded in 1990 by Paul Allen and Dan Taggart, published religious and educational software on CD-ROM. Infobases became an Inc. 500 company in 1996, growing from zero to $4 million in revenue in its first five years.

-acquired Bookcraft, Inc. in 1997.
-acquired by Deseret Management Corp in 1999.