Overview
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$1 to $2 billion (USD) per year
Ancestry, the global leader in family history and consumer genomics, harnesses the information found in family trees, historical records, and DNA to help people gain a new level of understanding about their lives. We host the world’s largest online collection of family history records and currently manage about 10 petabytes of structured and unstructured data, including billions of records detailing births, marriages, deaths, military service, and immigration. We offer a suite of family history products and services including AncestryDNA, Archives, ProGenealogists, Newspapers.com and Fold3. We have more than 1,700 employees in locations across the globe. Headquartered in Utah, we have offices in San Francisco, Dublin, London, Sydney and Munich. There’s power in knowing who you are and where you come from. This is the driving force behind everything we do. We’re passionate about using technology to create simple, useful, and delightful experiences that enrich lives and connect families. We’re continually looking for talented, hard-working individuals who are passionate about bringing this mission to life. Sound like you? Visit https://careers.ancestry.com Ancestry is a website enabling users to create their own family tree and help them discover, preserve and share their family history. Discover your ancestors with the world's largest family history website. Start a family tree, browse census records and more online at Ancestry.caAncestry.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. Ancestry is the global leader in family history and consumer genomics, harnessing a powerful combination of information, science, and technology to develop new experiences to help everyone, everywhere discover the story of what led to them. Ancestry offers a suite of family history products and services including AncestryDNA, Archives, ProGenealogists, Newspapers.com and Fold3.AncestryDNA is the world's largest consumer genomics database providing 2.5 million consumers insights into their ancestral origins. The service enables customers to not only uncover their ethnic mix and rich family stories, but discover distant relatives with a common ancestral match, and help solve the toughest family mysteries.
