Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com Inc. (formerly The Generations Network) is a private held Internet company. It is based in Provo, Utah, United States. It is the largest for-profit genealogy company in the world. The company operates a network of genealogical and historical record websites.^[2] These websites are focused on the United States and nine foreign countries. The company also develops and markets genealogical software, as well as other genealogical related services. As of December 2013, the company provided approximately 12.7 billion records and had 2.14 million paying subscribers. The website includes 191 million uploaded photos and more than 16 million uploaded stories. These were provided by people who use their website.^[3]

The company operates other websites including Archives.com, Fold3.com, ProGenealogists, 1000memories.com, Newspapers.com, Genealogy.com, MyFamily.com, and Rootsweb.com.^[4] Family Tree Maker was created by the company that advertised it as "the #1 selling family history software". Ancestry.com operates foreign sites that provide access to services and records specific to other countries in the languages of those countries. These include several countries in Europe (covered by Ancestry.com Europe S.à r.l.^[5]) as well as Australia, Canada, and China.

1. ↑ "MyFamily.com, Inc. Names Tim Sullivan President and Chief Executive Officer". PR Newswire. September 15, 2005. Retrieved April 21, 2008.
2. ↑ Peter Wayner (April 22, 2004). "From Shared Resources, Your Personal History". The New York Times. Retrieved April 13, 2007.
3. ↑ "Recent Business Highlights". Ancestry.com. Archived from the original on March 3, 2014. Retrieved February 24, 2014.
4. ↑ "FamilyHistory.com". Archived from the original on December 24, 2006. Retrieved December 26, 2006.
5. ↑ "Ancestry.com Europe S.à r.l." Archived from the original on February 28, 2011. Retrieved February 27, 2011.