GeneTree to Join Osmond Family 50th Anniversary Worldwide Concert Tour

Osmonds Seek "Lost Family Members;" Major Concert Tour Will
Highlight the Importance of Family and the Osmond Family's
Collaboration with GeneTree to Discover Previously Unknown Osmond
Relatives in the U.S., Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland and Australia;
Other Tour Locations Will Include Taiwan, Philippines and Malaysia
SALT LAKE CITY & LONDON--(Business Wire)--
GeneTree, a leading DNA-enabled family history-sharing Web site,
today announced that the company will be joining the Osmonds, one of
the world's best-known entertainment families, on its 50th Anniversary
worldwide concert tour.

GeneTree is currently collaborating with the Osmonds to promote
the concept of extended family, and will work with the family to find
and connect with unknown relatives living throughout the world.

"Family is one of the most powerful positive influences in each of
our lives," said Alan Osmond, the oldest performing member of the
Osmond family. "We are delighted to collaborate with GeneTree to
promote the importance of family connections and to emphasize the
close genetic connection we all share as members of a single human
family."

The Osmond family homepage, www.Osmond.com, features a prominent
link to Osmonds.GeneTree.com, under the heading, "Hi Cousin! Are You
An Osmond?" The Osmonds GeneTree link encourages people throughout the
world to learn more about their genetic heritage by registering for a
free GeneTree membership account, and ordering and submitting a
cost-effective GeneTree DNA test kit. GeneTree members can use the
site to find and contact previously unknown relatives in more than 170
countries, utilizing the world's most diverse collection of DNA
samples. In addition, GeneTree is publishing the Osmond family tree
and family photos on the site and sending out an exclusive 50th
Anniversary keepsake photo of the Osmonds with every DNA kit order.

A GeneTree banner illustrating Osmonds.GeneTree.com will also be
placed at venues throughout the Osmond 50th Anniversary tour, and a
GeneTree brochure inviting people to join GeneTree and learn whether
they are related to the Osmonds will be included in each of the
concert programs.

During the course of the tour, the Osmonds and GeneTree will meet
with newly discovered relatives who learned of their family connection
through Osmonds.GeneTree.com.

The tour kicked off May 18 with a performance in Belfast, Ireland,
followed by performances in Glasgow, Scotland (May 20); Newcastle (May
22), Sheffield (May 23), Manchester (May 24), Birmingham (May 26),
Cardiff (May 27 and May 28), London Wembley Arena (May 30) and London
02 Arena (June 1) in Great Britain; Perth, Australia (June 5); Taipei,
Taiwan (June 8); Manila, Philippines (June 14); Singapore (June 17);
and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (June 21).

"It is a genuine honor to work with the Osmonds in broadening and
deepening family connections for people throughout the world," said
John Winger, vice president of marketing for GeneTree. "It's difficult
to imagine a group of entertainers who represent the ideals and
reality of family better than the Osmonds."

The Osmond family is one of the world's best-known and most
popular entertainment families. The Osmonds - originally consisting of
performing brothers Alan, Wayne, Merrill and Jay - entered the world
music stage with a breakout performance at Disneyland, followed by
regular appearances on the Andy Williams Show in the early 1960s. The
group later added brothers Donny and Jimmy and the family's only
sister, Marie, to the mix. Older brothers George Jr. and Thomas are
both legally deaf and do not sing with the family, although they have
appeared fairly frequently on stage with their siblings.

Beginning in the early 1970s, the Osmond Brothers released a
series of successful albums with a long string of hit singles,
including "One Bad Apple," which topped the pop charts for five
consecutive weeks and top ten singles "Yo-yo" and "Down by the Lazy
River." The Osmonds' notoriety and popularity was furthered by the
Saturday morning cartoon series The Osmonds, which aired in 1972 and
1973; the Donny and Marie variety show (1976 to 1979); Donny's
starring Broadway turns in the title role of Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Coat and as Gaston in Beauty and the Beast; Marie's recent
third-place run on Dancing with the Stars; and a 50th-anniversary
appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show honoring the family's patriarch
George Osmond shortly after his passing.

About GeneTree

GeneTree (www.genetree.com) is a DNA-enabled family
history-sharing Web site designed to help people understand where
their personal histories belong within the greater human genetic
story. GeneTree creates opportunities for unlocking human genetic
heritage, discovering ancestors, connecting and collaborating with
living relatives, and sharing rich media to help discover, document
and preserve family histories. GeneTree was developed by the Sorenson
family of companies and draws on the expertise of the Sorenson
Molecular Genealogy Foundation, a nonprofit organization that
developed the world's foremost collection of genetic-genealogy
information; and Sorenson Media, which created of the world's leading
digital video compression software.

The GeneTree online press room is located at
http://www.genetree.com/help/pressroom.html.

Sorenson Public Relations
David Parkinson, 801-971-2450
david@sorensoncompanies.com
Jacob Moon, 801-520-2960
jacob@sorensoncompanies.com

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