All you have to do is answer the following question: how many profiles does the family tree with the most profiles on dynastree contain? Whoever comes closest to the actual number wins! Post your guess as a comment.

**Update**
Sorry folks, there was a lot going on yesterday! Anyway, we have a winner now! Congratulations to Dan Levold! Please contact us!

Poet, thinker and writer, he’s the author of some of the best known romances worldwide – Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth are just a few among his works that have been adapted to theater or film. One of the biggest controversies that mark the biography of this historical character concerns his birthdate. Nobody can say exactly if it was April 20th or 26th and to celebrate his birthday this upcoming month, we’re displaying here Shakespeare’s family tree.

If all his work woul be protected by copyright,  every  single of his descendants would be rich until these days, quite the oposite of Shakespeare himself who had a rather humble life. Maybe you should try to build up your family tree until you reach 1647. It’s possible you won the “lottery” and don’t know yet!

We’re giving away one of our high-quality poster prints for free!

To win a Panorama Print L (59.1 x 19.7 in, worth $ 49.00 / £ 35.00), simply write the most fascinating story of your ancestry in this post’s comments. Example: your great-grandpa was Walt Disney’s cousin and inspired him to draw Mickey Mouse.

The most most interesting story wins the poster, closing date is next Wednesday.

We’ll announce the winner here on this blog on Thursday (15.01.09).

The German magazine Internet World Business is looking for the best Internet Idea 2008 and our German "mothership" site verwandt.de is among the nominees! Now it’s upon you, the users, to click >>>here<<< to vote for us (We know, the site is in German, but it’s simple: just click on "Verwandt.de" in the left column, scroll down and click on the large red button that says "FÜR DIESEN UNTERNEHMER VOTEN").