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Ancestry.com Inc.
Private
Industry
Founded 1983; 41 years ago (1983)
Headquarters Provo, Utah, US
Key people
Tim Sullivan (President/CEO)[1]
Products
  • Ancestry.com
  • Archives.com
  • DNA.Ancestry.com
  • Family Tree Maker software
  • Fold3.com
  • Genealogy.com
  • MyFamily.com
  • Newspapers.com
  • Rootsweb.com
Revenue US$399.7 million (2011)
Owner Permira and co-investors
Number of employees
Over 1,000 worldwide (2012)
Website ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is a privately held Internet company based in Provo, Utah, United States. The largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, it operates a network of genealogical and historical record websites focused on the United States and nine foreign countries, develops and markets genealogical software, and offers a wide array of genealogical related services.[2] As of June 2014, the company provided access to approximately 16 billion historical records and over 2 million paying subscribers. User-generated content tallies to more than 70 million family trees and subscribers have added more than 200 million photographs, scanned documents and written stories.[3]

Ancestry's brands include Ancestry, AncestryDNA, AncestryHealth, AncestryProGenealogists, Family Tree Maker, Fold3, Newspapers.com, Find a Grave, Archives.com, and Rootsweb.[4]

Under its subsidiaries, 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 Information Operations Company[5]) as well as Australia and Canada.

History

Infobases, Inc.

Ancestry.com headquarters in Provo, Utah

In 1990, Paul B. Allen[6] and Dan Taggart, two Brigham Young University graduates, founded Infobases and began offering Latter-day Saints (LDS) publications on floppy disks. Allen's brother Curt and his brother-in-law Brad Pelo had founded Folio Corporation, where Paul Allen had worked in 1988. Infobases chose to use the Folio infobase technology which Allen was familiar with as the basis for their products.

The first products were floppy disks and compact disks sold from the back seat of their car. In 1994, Infobases was named among Inc. magazine's 500 fastest-growing companies.[7] Their first offering on CD was the LDS Collectors Edition, released in April 1995, selling for $299.95,[8] which was offered in an on-line version in August 1995.[9]

Ancestry.com

On January 1, 1997, Infobases' parent company, Western Standard Publishing, purchased Ancestry, Inc.,[10] publisher of Ancestry magazine and genealogy books. Founded in 1983 by John Sittner as a genealogy newsletter, Ancestry magazine had been launched in January 1994. Western Standard Publishing's CEO was Joe Cannon, one of the principal owners of Geneva Steel.[11]

In July 1997, Allen and Taggart purchased Western Standard's interest in Ancestry, Inc. At the time, Brad Pelo was president and CEO of Infobases, and president of Western Standard. Less than six months earlier, he had been president of Folio Corporation, whose digital technology Infobases was using. In March 1997, Folio was sold to Open Market for $45 million.[12] The first public evidence of the change in ownership of Ancestry Magazine came with the July/August 1997 issue, which showed a newly reorganized Ancestry, Inc., as its publisher. That issue's masthead also included the first use of the Ancestry.com web address.

More growth for Infobases occurred in July 1997 when Ancestry, Inc., purchased Bookcraft, Inc., a publisher of books written by leaders and officers of the LDS Church.[13][14] Infobases had published many of Bookcraft's books as part of its LDS Collector's Library. Pelo also announced that Ancestry's product line would be greatly expanded in both CDs and online. Alan Ashton, a longtime investor in Infobases, and founder of WordPerfect, was its chairman of the board. Allen and Taggart began running Ancestry, Inc. independently from Infobases in July 1997, and began creating one of the largest online subscription-based genealogy database services.[15]

In April 1999, to better focus on its Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com Internet businesses, Infobases sold the Bookcraft brand name and its catalog of print books to its major competitor in the LDS book market, Deseret Book. Included in the sale were the rights to Infobases's LDS Collector's Library on CD. A year earlier, Deseret Book had released a competing product called GospeLink, and the two products were combined as a single product by Deseret Book.[16][17]

The MyFamily.com website launched in December 1998, with additional free sites beginning in March 1999.[18] The site generated one million registered users within its first 140 days.[15] The company raised more than US$90 million in venture capital from investors[15] and changed its name on November 17, 1999 from Ancestry.com, Inc. to MyFamily.com, Inc. Its three Internet genealogy sites were then called Ancestry.com, MyFamily.com, and FamilyHistory.com.[19] Sales for 2002 were about US$62 million, and those for 2003 were US$99 million.[20]

In March 2004, the company opened a new call center in Provo as a result of outgrowing their old call center in Orem. The new call center accommodates about 700 agents at a time.[21] Heritage Makers was acquired by MyFamily.com in September 2005,[22] and sold a year later in August 2006.[citation needed] The Ancestry.ca website was opened on 24 January 2006.[23] In March 2006, MyFamily opened a new office in Bellevue, Washington, as part of the MyFamily business unit.[24] Encounter Technologies was acquired in April 2006.[25]

File:The Generations Network 2007 logo.svg
The Generations Network logo (2007–2009)

On December 19, 2006, the company changed its name to "The Generations Network."[26] While the company had been offering free access to Ancestry.com at LDS Family History Centers, that service was terminated on 17 March 2007 because of the inability to reach a mutually agreeable licensing agreement between TGN and the LDS Church. In 2010, Ancestry restored access to its site at Family History Centers.

On July 6, 2009, the company changed its name to "Ancestry.com".[27]

In 2010, Ancestry sold its book publishing assets to Turner Publishing.[28] In the same year, the company discontinued the publication of Ancestry Magazine, after 25 years of publication[29] and Genealogical Computing.[30]

Ancestry.com became a publicly traded company on NASDAQ (symbol: ACOM) on November 5, 2009 with an initial public offering of 7.4 million shares priced at $13.50 per share underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Jefferies & Company, Piper Jaffray, and BMO Capital Markets.[31][32]

The company continued its partnership with NBC for the second season of the Who Do You Think You Are? television series in 2011.[33]

In 2010, Ancestry.com expanded its location to San Francisco, California, starting its office in San Francisco with brand new engineering, product, and marketing teams. The San Francisco office is geared toward developing some of Ancestry's cutting-edge technology and services. Some of their recent initiatives include iPhone and iPad application development.

In December 2011, Ancestry.com moved the Social Security Death Index search behind a paywall and stopped displaying the Social Security information of people who had died within the past 10 years because of identity theft concerns.[34]

In September 2012, Ancestry.com expanded its international operations with the opening of its European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. The Dublin office includes a new call centre for international customers, as well as product, marketing and engineering teams.[35][36]

In October 2012, Ancestry.com agreed to be acquired by a private equity group consisting of Permira Advisers LLP, members of Ancestry.com's management team, including CEO Tim Sullivan and CFO Howard Hochhauser, and Spectrum Equity for $32 per share or around $1.6 billion.[37][38] At the same time, Ancestry.com purchased a photo digitization and sharing service called 1000Memories.[39]

In September 2013, Ancestry.com announced its acquisition of Find a Grave.[40] A month later, the company announced it had purchased the family history records of South African genealogy website Ancestry24 which ceased operating in February 2013.[41][42]

Products and services

Ancestry.com is a subscription-based genealogy research website with over 5 billion records online.[43] The majority of records are from the United States, though records are being added for other countries, such as Canada, the UK, and European countries. Some records are free for anyone to access, but the majority are accessible only by paid subscription.[44]

On June 22, 2006, Ancestry.com completed the indexing and scanning of all of the United States Federal Census records from 1790 through 1930.[45][46]

Ancestry.com was nominated for a 2007 CODiE Award in the "Best Online Consumer Information Service" category.[47]

For genetic genealogy, Ancestry.com offers genealogical DNA tests of autosomal DNA, paternal Y-chromosome DNA and maternal mitochondrial DNA.[48] As of June 2014, Ancestry.com has discontinued its paternal Y-chromosome DNA and maternal mitochondrial DNA tests and only carries an autosomal DNA test.[49]

Site users and traffic

In the first quarter of 2012, Ancestry had 1.87 million users.[50] According to Quantcast, as of April 2012, Ancestry.com reached a rough estimate of 8.3 – 8.4 million people in the US.[51]

In the second quarter of 2014, Ancestry had 2.11 million users, for a loss of 52,000 subscribers when compared to the first quarter of 2014.[52]

Other sites

Ancestry24 – On October 22, 2013, Ancestry.com purchased Ancestry24. Before that, Ancestry24 ceased operating in February 2013. Ancestry24 was an online archive and research service owned by Media24 that preserved South Africa’s history for future generations in the form of a collection of databases that included millions of records on individuals who have lived in South Africa since the late 1600s. Transcribed from original documents and reliable resources, records included births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, burials, passenger lists and voters lists. It also had an image library of over 33,000 graves.

FindAGrave.com – 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 planned to bolster the resources dedicated to Find a Grave to "...launch a new mobile app, improve customer support, introduce an enhanced edit system for submitting updates to memorials, foreign-language support, and other site improvements."[53]

Fold3 is a subscription-based website specializing in historical military records primarily from the United States. It also has a large collection of documents dealing with the United States, city directories, and newspapers. Some record sets are free[54] but the majority are accessible only by paid subscription. The website was originally named Footnote.com and independently owned when it launched in 2007. Footnote.com was acquired by Ancestry.com in fall 2010.[55] As part of the acquisition, Footnote.com was later rebranded as Fold3 in an effort to focus on military records.

Genealogy.com is a genealogy research website with some records not found on Ancestry.com, though the total number of records available is smaller. Genealogy.com was acquired from A&E Networks by MyFamily.com in 2003.[56]

LongLostPeople.com allows one to search public records for living people in the United States.[57]

MyFamily.com allowed members to create private family, or group, websites. Customization was limited. The 1998 version is still available but no further enhancements are planned.[citation needed] After three years of a beta release 2.0, it was running the first non-beta release, "MyFamily.com 2.5.3". However, since the architecture was changed so radically from 2.0 to 2.5, internally at MyFamily all references to v2.5 are actually being called v3.0.[58] Users of version 3.0 (aka 2.5) last saw an update to the code in February 2010, since that date both v1.0 and v3.0 have been 'frozen'.[59] Migration services from v1.0 to v3.0 were stopped on 21 March 2010 with no reason given.[60] Many features of the original version of the site were not ported to release v3.0, although new features such as video support, blog support, social group interface, and unlimited storage were introduced.[61] Also in May 2010, MyFamily closed their Bellevue, Washington, development office, effectively letting their entire staff go since the offer to move to Provo, Utah, was not accepted by any staff. Since the loss of the Washington office, no new features have been added nor have any current problems or bugs been resolved.[citation needed] As of July 2010, free sites on v3.0 were discontinued.[59] On June 4, 2014, Ancestry.com announced that myfamily.com would be shut down on September 5, 2014.[needs update] Members were informed they could download zip files of their data if they desired.[62] At the shutdown, MyFamily had not resolved discontent with the downloading process, which consisted of capturing miscellaneous uncatalogued photos, with alphanumeric names and no data attached, and various calendar documents, thus leaving behind the associated data, File Cabinet documents, family recipes, and all other information.[63]

Newspapers.com, is a subscription-based website launched in November 2012,[64] which provides access to historical newspapers, mostly from the United States, for genealogical and historical research.

Ancestry Academy, is a website that offers high-quality video instruction from family history and genealogy experts. Launched in April 2015,[65] and covers a wide range of topics of interest in family history research, including Native American ancestry, online US census research, and DNA testing. New courses are added monthly.

RootsWeb was acquired by MyFamily.com in June 2000.[66] RootsWeb is a free genealogy community that uses online forums, mailing lists, and other resources to help people research their family history. Founded in 1993 by Brian Leverich and Karen Isaacson as the Roots Surname List, it is the oldest free online community genealogy research site.[67] Users can upload GEDCOM files of their information for others to search at the WorldConnect portion of the site. Trees uploaded to WorldConnect are searchable at both the RootsWeb and Ancestry websites.

ProGenealogists.com is the official Ancestry.com research firm.

Family Tree Maker

Family Tree Maker (FTM)
Family Tree Maker 2012 icon.png
Original author(s) Kenneth Lafferty Hess[68]
Developer(s) Ancestry.com, Inc.
Initial release 1989; 35 years ago (1989)[69]
Stable release 2014 (September 10, 2013; 10 years ago (2013-09-10))
Development status Discontinued 31 December 2015[70]
Operating system Windows, Mac
Available in English
Type Genealogy software
License Proprietary
Website www.familytreemaker.com

Family Tree Maker (FTM) is advertised as "the #1 selling family history software".[71] As with other genealogy software, FTM allows the researcher to keep track of information collected during research and to create reports, charts, and books containing that information. The software was originally developed by Kenneth Hess of Banner Blue Software,[68] which was purchased by Brøderbund in 1995.[72] It passed through the hands of The Learning Company, Mattel, and others before coming under its current ownership.

On December 8, 2015, Ancestry.com announced that it would discontinue Family Tree Maker.[73]

A redesigned Family Tree Maker 2008 was released on August 14, 2007.[74] The 2009 version of the program corrected some of the errors and omissions of its predecessor, and introduced a few new features.[citation needed] Family Tree Maker 2010 claimed to further enhance the radical re-design and be more powerful and feature-packed with faster navigation and quicker load times.[75]

A version for the Mac was released in 1997, but due to low market demand was discontinued[76] for over a decade. A new version of Family Tree Maker for Mac was finally released on November 4, 2010.[77]

Family Tree Maker Version 16 was awarded a CODiE Award in the "Best Consumer Productivity Solution" category in 2006.[78]

FTM version history

Please press show for more information on past versions.

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Family Tree Maker version history
Meaning
Red Not supported
Yellow Still supported (Update to the last patch for that version)
Green Current version


Version Release date Released by Edition/s Notes
1.0 1989[79] Banner Blue Software DOS Supplied on 3.5 and 5.25 floppy disks. Data file used .FTM as a file extension on DOS. No GEDCOM support.
1.01 1990[citation needed] Banner Blue Software DOS No GEDCOM support.
2.0 January 1994 Banner Blue Software Windows 3.1 / DOS Data file used .FTW as a file extension on Windows. Supplied on two 3½ inch floppy disks. Supported GEDCOM import/export.[80]
2.?? October 1994[citation needed] Banner Blue Software Windows 3.1 / DOS Second version (patch?)
3.0 24 October 1995 Brøderbund Software Windows 3.1 & 95 (16 bit) / DOS Supplied on three floppy disks. 16 bit application compatible with Windows 95. DOS version shipped with the DEU (Data Exchange Utility)[81][82][83][84]
3.01 February 1996 Brøderbund Software Windows 3.1 & 95 (16 bit & 32 bit) / DOS Beginning with this version every copy of Family Tree Maker for Windows came with both a Windows 95 (32-bit) and Windows 3.1x (16-bit) version.[85][86]
3.02 October 1995 Brøderbund Software Windows 32 bit [87]
3.02 Mac January 1997 Brøderbund Software Macintosh (PowerPC processor only) Marketed as Family Tree Maker Deluxe Edition II for Macintosh.[88][88][89][90][91][92][93][94]
3.4 November 1996[95][96] Brøderbund Software Windows 3.1 & 95 (16 bit & 32 bit) / DOS
4.0 September 1996 Brøderbund Software Windows 3.1 & 95 (16 bit & 32 bit) / DOS First release on a CD-ROM.[97]
4.0a  ? Brøderbund Software Windows [98]
4.0b  ? Brøderbund Software Windows [98][99]
4.4  ? Brøderbund Software Windows [100][101]
4.4 File Fixer Patch  ? Brøderbund Software Windows [98]
5.0 (before) August 1998[citation needed] The Learning Company Windows [102]
5.0a (Patch)  ? The Learning Company Windows [103][104]
5.0b  ? The Learning Company Windows [98]
6.0 after May 1999[citation needed] The Learning Company (Mattel Incorporated) Windows [105][106]
6.0a (Index Optimization Update)  ? The Learning Company (Mattel Incorporated) Windows [98]
7.0 October 1999 The Learning Company (Mattel Incorporated) Windows [107]
7.5 April 2000 Genealogy.com Windows [108]
8.0 October 2000 Genealogy.com Windows [109][110]
9.0 October 2001 Genealogy.com Windows [111][112]
9.0 (patch after release) October 30, 2001 Genealogy.com Windows [113]
10.0 September 2002 Genealogy.com Windows [114][115]
11.0 September 2003 MyFamily.com Windows [116][117]
2005 August 2004 MyFamily.com Windows [118][119]
2006 12 September 2005 MyFamily.com Windows [120][121]
2006 Patch  ? MyFamily.com Windows [122]
16 September 2006 MyFamily.com Windows [123]
2008 14 August 2007 Ancestry.com Windows Returned to using the .FTM extension for windows datafiles.[124][125]
2008 Service Pack 1  ? Ancestry.com Windows [126]
2008 Service Pack 2  ? Ancestry.com Windows [126]
2008 Service Pack 3 (17.0.0.965)  ? Ancestry.com Windows [126]
2009 28 August 2008 The Generations Network Windows [127]
2009 Patch 18A (18.0.0.94)  ? The Generations Network Windows [128]
2009 Patch 18B (18.0.0.95)  ? The Generations Network Windows [128]
2009 Patch 18C (18.0.0.305)  ? The Generations Network Windows [128]
2009 Patch 18D (18.0.0.307)  ? The Generations Network Windows [128]
2010 19 August 2009 Ancestry.com Windows Vista & XP SP2 [129][130]
2010 Service Pack 1 (19.0.0.206)  ? Ancestry.com Windows 7 & Vista & XP SP2 [131]
2011 31 August 2010 Ancestry.com Windows 7 & Vista & XP SP2 [132]
2011 Service Pack 1 (20.0.0.376)  ? Ancestry.com Windows 7 & Vista & XP SP2 [133]
2010 Mac 4 November 2010 Ancestry.com Mac OSX 10.5 or later (Intel-based Mac) Marketed as Family Tree Maker for Mac. Supplied on 2 × CD-ROM[134][135]
2010 Mac (Update 19.2.0.241) 1 February 2011 Ancestry.com Mac OSX 10.5 or later (Intel-based Mac) [136][137]
2012 29 September 2011 Ancestry.com Windows 7 & Vista & XP SP2 [138]
2014 10 September 2013 Ancestry.com Windows 8 & 7 & Vista & XP SP2 [139]
2014 Mac 13 December 2013 Ancestry.com Mac OSX 10.6 or later (Intel-based Mac) Marketed as Family Tree Maker Mac 3.[140]
FTM Merger history
  • 1984 Banner Blue Software founded by Ken Hess, As the founder and president of Banner Blue Software from 1984 to 1996, I sold over two million copies of Family Tree Maker
  • May 1997 Brøderbund Software acquired Parsons Technology from Intuit (which included the marketing rights to Family Origins for Windows
  • August 1998 Brøderbund Software acquired by The Learning Company (which included Family Tree Creator through an acquisition of Mindscape/IMSI. v5 Published
  • Late 1998 The Learning Company acquired Palladium Interactive (which included Ultimate Family Tree).
  • May 1999 The Learning Company was acquired by Mattel Incorporated "Barbie").v6 Published
  • November 1999 A&E Television Networks, Hearst Interactive Media, Mattel, and private equity firms form Genealogy.com, LLC April 2000 v7.5 Published.
  • February 2001 A&E TV acquired Genealogy.com
  • Late 2001 Genealogy.com acquired the GenForum message board site, which it had been hosting for a few years
  • June 2002 Genealogy.com acquired Generations PC product line from Sierra Home
  • April 2003 Genealogy.com acquired by MyFamily.com
  • December 2006 My Family.com Inc changes its name to The Generations Network

Past products

Past genealogy programs.

Partnerships

Ancestry.com is partnered with FamilySearch.[149]

Ancestry.com is partnered with ProQuest LLC. ProQuest distributes Ancestry Library Edition worldwide to public and academic libraries, K-12 schools, and other institutions.

See also

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  142. Family Origins Newsletter, This will probably be the last issue of the Family Origins newsletter (I hear a lot of you saying "I thought you stopped writing it a long time ago <g>). As many of you know, we (FormalSoft) have been working on a new genealogy program called RootsMagic which we released in February 2002. Many of you have been using Family Origins since we first licensed it to Parsons Technology over 12 years ago. You have gone through all the company changes with us (Parsons, Intuit, Broderbund, The Learning Co. , Mattel, Genealogy.com)...As of January 2003, Genealogy.com has discontinued our Family Origins program...
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