Ancestry.com facts for kids
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| Founded | 1983 |
| Founders | Paul Brent Allen Dan Taggart |
| Headquarters | Lehi, Utah |
| Products | Ancestry.com Archives.com FindAGrave Fold3 Newspapers.com Rootsweb AncestryProGenealogists |
| Revenue | US$683.1 million (2015) |
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Ancestry.com LLC is a privately held online company based in Lehi, Utah. The largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, it operates a network of genealogical, historical records, and genetic genealogy websites.
As of November 2018, the company claimed to provide access to approximately 10 billion historical records, to have 3 million paying subscribers, and to have sold 15 million DNA kits to customers.
Productions and services
Ancestry.com is a subscription-based genealogy research website. It has 5 billion records online. Most of the records are from the United States. However, records are being added for other countries, such as Canada, the UK, and European countries.
Most records on Ancestry.com are only available for paying subscribers, though some records are free for anyone to access.
Family Tree Maker (FTM) is advertised as "the #1 selling family history software". FTM allows the researcher to keep track of information collected during research and to create reports, charts, and books containing that information.
Ancestry DNA is commonly used for donor conceived persons to find their biological siblings and in some cases their sperm or egg donor.
The testing itself is performed by Quest Diagnostics.
On September 30, 2013, Ancestry.com announced its acquisition of Find a Grave. Site editor Jim Tipton said of the purchase that Ancestry.com had "been linking and driving traffic to the site for several years. Burial information is a wonderful source for people researching their family history". Ancestry.com launched a mobile app in March 2014.
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Former Ancestry.com headquarters in Provo, Utah
