Ancestry.com Statistics, Facts & History

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Category: Statistics, Facts & History
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Industry
Genealogy
Owner
Ancestry.com LLC
Business Started
1983
Countries of Operation
United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, ...

Overview

Ancestry is the largest genealogy company in the world. With more than 20 billion records worldwide dating back to the 1300's, Ancestry.com allows it's subscribers to research and create family trees. Members can search government records like the Census, Immigration & Travel, Military, and other records from schools and newspapers to build a family tree online. Users can also attach their own documents and pictures. To date Ancestry has over 90 million family trees stored (with 10 billion connections) with members contributing more than 200 million pictures, digitized documents, and stories.

Ancestry has a very vibrant online community where users can exchange tips on forums and also allow other members to search their own family tree they have built for connections.

Ancestry.com family of genealogy websites (and apps) includes Archives.com, AncestryDNA and Genealogy.com. For more information on their DNA service, please read the AncestryDNA statistics and facts page.

For more information about this company please see our detailed Ancestry information page.

History of Facts & Statistics

2017

  • Ancestry revenue grew to $850 million in 2016, up 25% from 2015. [1]
  • Ancestry files for Confidential IPO. [2]
  • Ancestry is estimated to be worth $2.6 billion. [2]
  • Ancestry has 2.6 million paying subscribers worldwide. [3]
  • 20 billion records have been added to Ancestry since launch with an average of two million records to its website each day. Over 15 billion are U.S. records. [3]
  • Members have now created more than 90 million family trees that have more than 10 billion ancestral profiles. [3]
  • Ancestry members have created more than 10 billion connections between other members family trees. [3]
References
  1. Ancestry Revenue Soars with DNA Test Requests
  2. Ancestry.com Files for Confidential IPO
  3. Ancestry Company Overview [1]

2016

  • Ancestry has over 1400 employees (mostly in Lehi, Utah, United States) and 7 offices worldwide. [1]
  • Ancestry websites still deal with on average 75 million searches daily. [1]
  • The app has been downloaded 14 million times. [1]
  • Ancestry as a whole (all 80 countries) has more than 19 billion records with on average 2 million being added every day. [1]
  • Ancestry members have created over 80 million family trees containing more than 8 billion connections. [1]
  • Ancestry has 2.4 million paying subscribers across all of its genealogy websites. [1]
  • The Family Tree Maker software has been acquired by Software MacKiev after Ancestry discontinues the software in 2015. [2]
References
  1. Ancestry Company Overview [1]
  2. New Family Tree Maker Options [1]

2015

  • Ancestry revenues have increased from $225 million in 2009 to $680 million in 2015. [1]
  • Subscribers of all Ancestry websites totaled about 2,264,000 as of December 31, 2015. [2]
  • New offerings this year by Ancestry include Ancestry Academy, New Ancestor Discoveries and a beta launch of Ancestry Health. [2]
  • The Ancestry family of products now has over 17 billion records. [2]
  • Ancestry users have created more than 70 million family trees and added 200 million photographs, scanned documents, and written stories. [2]
References
  1. Ancestry Company Overview [1]
  2. Ancestry.com LLC Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2015 Financial Results [1]

2014

  • Ancestry.com LLC has 1,400 employees. [1]
  • Worldwide Ancestry has 2.7 million subscribers who generate on average 75 million searches a day[1]
  • Ancestry.com has a 10 petabyte database with 13 billion records. [1]
  • Database records go back to the 1300's. [1]
  • Records grew by 1.2 billion documents in 2013. [1]
  • Ancestry has about 12.7 billion records including 1.2 billion new records from 2013. [2]
  • 3.1 billion records had been attached to our users' family members, including 191 million uploaded photos and more than 16 million uploaded stories. [2]
  • The Ancestry app has been downloaded more than 10 million times (includes Android and iOS). [2]
References
  1. Managing & Securing Data for the World's Families [1]
  2. Ancestry.com LLC Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2013 Financial Results [1]

2013

  • In April Scott Sorensen became the CTO of Ancestry.com LLC. [1]
References
  1. Managing & Securing Data for the World's Families [1]

2012

  • AncestryDNA launched in May. [1]
References
  1. Managing & Securing Data for the World's Families [1]

2006

  • Ancestry.com completed the indexing and scanning of all of the United States Federal Census records from 1790 through 1930. [1]
References
  1. Ancestry Wikipedia Page [1]

1996

  • Ancestry.com officially went online. [1]
References
  1. Ancestry Wikipedia Page [1]

1994

  • Ancestry becomes a magazine. [1]
References
  1. Ancestry Wikipedia Page [1]

1983

  • Ancestry launched originally as a newsletter by John Sittner. [1]
References
  1. Ancestry Wikipedia Page [1]

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