Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah. The largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, it operates a network of genealogical, historical records, and related genetic genealogy websites.
In November 2018, the company said to have provided access to approximately 10 billion historical records, to have 3 million paying subscribers, and to have sold 18 million DNA kits to customers. By 2022, this number had risen to 30 billion records according to the company. On December 4, 2020, The Blackstone Group acquired the company in a deal valued at 4.7billion.In1990,PaulBrentAllen(nottobeconfusedwithMicrosoftcofounderPaulAllenortheAllenHoldingsCEOPaulAllen)andDanTaggart,twoBrighamYoungUniversitygraduates,foundedInfobasesandbeganofferingLatter−daySaints(LDS)publicationsonfloppydisks.In1988,AllenhadworkedatFolioCorporation,foundedbyhisbrotherCurtandhisbrother−in−lawBradPelo.Theservicewasinitiallytohelpmembersofthechurchtoresearchtheirancestorstosupportthechurch′spracticeofconductingbaptismsfordeadrelatives/ancestorsintothechurch.Infobases′firstproductswerefloppydisksandcompactdiskssoldfromthebackseatofthefounders′car.In1994,InfobaseswasnamedamongInc.magazine′s500fastest−growingcompanies.TheirfirstofferingonCDwastheLDSCollectorsEdition,releasedinApril1995,sellingfor299.95, which was offered in an online version in August 1995. Ancestry officially went online with the launch of Ancestry.com in 1996.
On January 1, 1997, Infobases' parent company, Western Standard Publishing, purchased Ancestry, Inc., publisher of Ancestry magazine and genealogy books. Western Standard Publishing's CEO was Joseph A. Cannon, one of the principal owners of Geneva Steel.
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.
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MyHeritage is an online genealogy platform with web, mobile, and software products and services, introduced by the Israeli company MyHeritage in 2003. Users of the platform can obtain their family trees, upload and browse through photos, and search through over 19.4 billion historical records, among other features. As of 2023, the service supports 42 languages. In 2016, it launched a genetic testing service called MyHeritage DNA, with more than 6.5 million DNA kits in the company's database by March 2023.
A genealogical DNA test is a DNA-based genetic test used in genetic genealogy that looks at specific locations of a person's genome in order to find or verify ancestral genealogical relationships, or (with lower reliability) to estimate the ethnic mixture of an individual. Since different testing companies use different ethnic reference groups and different matching algorithms, ethnicity estimates for an individual vary between tests, sometimes dramatically.
Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members. The results are often displayed in charts or written as narratives. The field of family history is broader than genealogy, and covers not just lineage but also family and community history and biography.
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