Trace Your Roots with Corel Family Tree Master.

OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 1997--(TSE COS., NASDAQ COSFF.) Corel Corporation and its subsidiaries have begun shipping Corel Family Tree Master(TM), an easy-to-use genealogy program complete with Corel's trademark graphics and photo-editing capabilities. Designed for Windows(R)95 and Windows NT(R), Corel Family Tree Master allows users to trace their roots and display them professionally in a wide variety of charts and reports. Corel's addition to the genealogy market is available for a suggested retail price of $99 U.S.

"Easy-to-use wizards, drag and drop functionality and tutorials, along with amazing graphical capabilities that allow users to add backgrounds, borders and even photos to their family trees, make this a powerful package," said Dr. Michael Cowpland, president and chief executive officer of Corel Corporation. "Ours is the only product on the market with such an extensive graphical component."

Corel Family Tree Master ships with The Ancestry Genealogy Library(TM), a compilation of 22 databases of both genealogy reference books and vital data. This fully searchable library will help anyone who is serious about discovering their heritage understand the how, where, what and why of family history research. (Eighteen of the genealogy databases included on the CD are locked and users must call Ancestry Inc. to unlock for a fee of anywhere between $4.95 U.S. and $29.95 U.S.). The other four databases, including the Social Security Death Index containing 52 million records are available at no additional charge.

"With Corel Family Tree Master, Corel will expose millions of people around the world to the exciting hobby of genealogy," said Dan Taggart, president of Ancestry Publishing. "We are pleased to provide our award-winning research materials and library to assist people who are serious about discovering their heritage."

Corel Family Tree Master also includes the following features:

- Corel Photo House(TM): A new photo-editing and bitmap creation application that has been developed to make it easy for users to scan in their own photographs, touch them up, and add fun special effects or create bitmap images using the painting tools.

- Corel(R) Family Publisher(TM): A companion for any genealogy program, this new program allows users to automatically publish data to diskette for distribution with the Viewer Utility and share their family history with others. Based upon the original genealogy companion program from Progeny Software Inc., Corel Family Publisher provides a suite of genealogy charts and reports, including the increasingly popular fan chart. Direct import of GEDCOM files ensures compatibility with virtually any genealogy application on the market. (This program is also available as a stand-alone product for Windows(R) 3.1 and Windows 95 at a suggested retail price of $29.95 U.S.)

- The ability to research more than 175,000 name histories, track medical information and addresses, and create family photo albums.

- The program's Internet support allows users to create and publish their own family World Wide Web page.

- Also included are 2,000 backgrounds and borders, 300 coats of arms, over 250 photos and 150 fonts.

Minimum System Requirements

Minimum system requirements include Windows 95 or Windows NT, a 486 66 DX (486 66 DX2 recommended), 8 MB of RAM (12 MB recommended), a 256-color graphics display, and a double-speed CD ROM drive. Corel Corporation

Incorporated in 1985, Corel Corporation is recognized internationally as an award-winning developer and marketer of productivity applications, graphics and multimedia software. Corel's product line includes CorelDRAW(TM), Corel(R) WordPerfect(R) Suite, Corel(R) Office Professional, CorelVIDEO(TM), CorelCAD(TM) and over 30 multimedia software titles. Corel's products run on most operating systems, including: Windows, Macintosh(R), UNIX, MS-DOS, OpenVMS and OS/2 and are consistently rated among the strongest in the industry. The company ships its products in over 17 languages through a network of more than 160 distributors in 70 countries world-wide. Corel is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (symbol - COS) and on NASDAQ National Market System (symbol - COSFF). For more information visit Corel's home page on the Internet at http://www.corel.com.

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