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Ancestry

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Ancestry.com is a subscription based website which helps you discover, preserve and share your family history. The site has over 7 billion records from the US, Canada and Europe ready to add or already added to family trees. It has all relevant Federal Census records since 1790. Records are generally accessible through a paid subscription, but many are free to browse. As of June 2011, the site had nearly 1.7 paying subscribers and 26 million family trees.

Ancestry.com lets users create their own family tree using web software that does not require a download. Users can start a free account if they only want to use Ancestry’s family tree template and fill in their relatives manually. For those who are looking to uncover long lost relative and see if you really are related to the 3rd Czar of Russia, there is a premium and pricey subscription service that will fill in as many of your relatives as possible, filling out the branches of your family tree.

Since starting as a publishing company in 1983, Ancestry.com has been a leader in the family history market for over 20 years and have helped pioneer the market for online family history research. The foundation of their service is an extensive and unique collection of billions of historical records that have been digitized, indexed and put online since 1996. Ancestry.com revenues have increased from $140.3 million in 2005 to $300.9 million in 2010, a compound annual growth rate of 16.5%.

Competitors include Geni and MyHeritage. MyFamily.com is a sister site.

Recent Milestones

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  Ancestry acquired 1000memories. (10/3/12)
  Posted 10/3/12 at 5:30pm via techcrunch.com
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  Ancestry acquired Archives.com for $100M. (4/25/12)
  Posted 4/25/12 at 7:54pm via techcrunch.com
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  Ancestry acquired iArchives for $27M. (9/23/10)
  Posted 9/30/10 at 5:28pm via paidcontent.org
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  Ancestry acquired Footnote for $28M. (9/23/10)
  Posted 12/15/10 at 3:37am via about.com
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  Ancestry received () in Venture Round funding. (8/1/10)
  Posted 3/26/13 at 9:37am
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  Ancestry acquired Genline for $6.7M. (6/14/10)
  Posted 6/14/10 at 9:56pm via paidcontent.org
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  Ancestry — Ancestry.com files for $75M IPO. (8/3/09)
  Posted 8/4/09 at 10:48am via techcrunch.com
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  Ancestry added Skander Ben Mansour as Head of Proposition Development. (7/1/09)
  Posted 10/30/09 at 12:59pm
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  Ancestry added Tim Sullivan as President and CEO. (9/1/05)
  Posted 4/10/13 at 12:01am
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  Ancestry received $33.2M in Series B funding. (9/1/99)
  Posted 10/16/07 at 6:11am via findarticles.com
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  Ancestry added Paul Allen as CEO, VP Marketing. (7/1/97)
  Posted 11/11/09 at 11:10pm
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  Ancestry added Kendall Hulet as Sr. Director, International Product Management.
  Posted 5/19/10 at 5:15am
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  Ancestry added Andrew Wait as SVP, Marketing.
  Posted 10/16/07 at 5:44am
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  Ancestry added Daren Thayne as CTO.
  Posted 10/16/07 at 5:44am
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  Ancestry added David H. Rinn as CFO.
  Posted 10/16/07 at 5:43am
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  Ancestry added Eric Shoup as SVP, Product.
  Posted 9/4/08 at 3:30pm

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Website	ancestry.com
Blog	blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry
Stage	Live
Tags	family-tree

Basic use if free. Premium services are $30 or $40 per month for access to national and global records respectively.

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Uploaded: 2/5/08

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1. Ancestry.com Acquires Photo Digitization And Sharing Service 1000memories (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Ancestry.com Acquires Archives.com For $100 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Ancestry.com to Acquire Footnote.com (genealogy.about.com) [edit]
4. Ancestry.com Acquiring iArchives For $27 Million (paidcontent.org) [edit]
5. Ancestry.com Buys Buys Swedish Counterpart Genline For $6.7 Million (paidcontent.org) [edit]
6. findarticles.com [edit]
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Finding Family Is Big Business: Ancestry.com Files For $75 Million IPO (techcrunch.com) [edit]