
Ancestry Stock
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About Ancestry Stock
Ancestry.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](http://crunchbase.com/organization/geni) and [MyHeritage](http://crunchbase.com/organization/myheritage). [MyFamily.com](http://crunchbase.com/organization/myfamily.com) is a sister site.
Investors
GIC
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Funding History
September 1999 | $33.2M |
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April 2016 | $0 |
Management
Director of Product Management
Brett Huneycutt
SVP and GM AncestryDNA
Kenneth Chahine
President and CEO
Tim Sullivan
Senior Vice President of International
Olivier Van Calster
EVP, Product
Eric Shoup
Senior Vice President of U.S. Marketing
Rob Singer
Site Performance Manager
Jeremy Noel Johnson
Director of Product Design
Rudy Adler
Executive Creative Director
Scott Kinzie
UX Prototyper
Jed Wood
Executive Vice President and Global Chief Marketing Officer
Vineet Mehra
Director, Global Performance Media
Lindsay Chastain
Chief Data Officer
Amy Gershkoff
Press
TechCrunch - Aug, 21 2018
23andMe’s ancestry tools are getting better for people of colorTampabay.com - Jun, 3 2018
DNA for Sale: Ancestry wants your spit, your DNA and your trust. Should you give them all 3?Becker's Hospital Review - Jun, 1 2018
23andMe sues Ancestry.com: 5 things to knowDeseret News - May, 31 2018
Is DNA testing telling us more than we want to know? The untold story of Ancestry.comTechCrunch - Oct, 22 2017
Ancestry answered the DNA questions 23andMe couldn’t- Jan, 11 2017
Shadow Bank Stretches Into Loans- Dec, 31 2016
Researchers find Cumberbatch related to Holmes' creator- Nov, 24 2016
I've taken AncestryDNA and 23andMe genetics tests -- here's what I tell people when they ask me which one is best- Nov, 23 2016
I've taken AncestryDNA and 23andMe genetics tests — here's what I tell people when they ask me which one is best- Oct, 6 2016
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