Ancestry.com explained

Ancestry.com LLC
Type:Private
Industry:
    Revenue: US$1 billion (2022)[1]
    Owner: (2021-present)
    Num Employees:1,400[2]
    Members:25 million
    Location:Lehi, Utah, U.S.

    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. It is owned by The Blackstone Group, which acquired the company on December 4, 2020, in a deal valued at $4.7 billion.[3] [4] [5]

    As of 2022, the company said it had provided access to 30 billion historical records, tripling its November 2018 figure of 10 billion records.[6] In 2018 it also reported having 3 million paying subscribers, and to have sold 18 million DNA kits to customers.[7] By 2023, Ancestry was the largest provider of consumer DNA testing in the world with a network of over 25 million users,[8] and Ancestry DNA testing is now available in 128 countries.

    As well as its main website, Ancestry operates country-specific versions for Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Sweden and the United Kingdom.[9]

    History

    Ancestry

    1983

    Ancestry Publishing was founded in 1983, producing genealogical data in print form, with more than 40 family history magazine titles and genealogy reference books published.[10] [11]

    1990–1999

    In 1990, Paul Brent Allen and Dan Taggart, two Brigham Young University graduates, founded Infobases and began offering Latter-day Saints (LDS) publications on floppy disks. In 1988, Allen had worked at Folio Corporation, founded by his brother Curt and his brother-in-law Brad Pelo.The service was initially to help members of the church to research their ancestors.

    Infobases' first products were floppy disks and compact disks sold from the back seat of the founders' car. In 1994, Infobases was named among Inc. magazine's 500 fastest-growing companies.[12] Their first offering on CD was the LDS Collectors Edition, released in April 1995, selling for $299.95,[13] which was offered in an online version in August 1995.[14] 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.,[15] publisher of Ancestry magazine and genealogy books. Western Standard Publishing's CEO was Joseph A. Cannon, one of the principal owners of Geneva Steel.[16]

    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.[17] 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.[18] [19] 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.[20]

    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' LDS Collectors 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.[21] [22]

    The MyFamily.com website launched in December 1998, with additional free sites beginning in March 1999.[23] The site generated one-million registered users within its first 140 days.[20] The company raised more than US$90 million in venture capital from investors[20] 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, FamilyHistory.com, and MyFamily.com.[24] Sales were about US$62 million for 2002 and US$99 million for 2003.[25]

    2000–2009

    In March 2004, the company, which had outgrown its call center in Orem, Utah, opened a new call center, which accommodated about 700 agents at a time, in Provo.[26] Heritage Makers was acquired by MyFamily.com in September 2005.[27]

    On November 5, 2009, Ancestry.com became a publicly traded company on NASDAQ (symbol: ACOM), 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.[28]

    2010–2019

    In 2010, Ancestry sold its book publishing assets to Turner Publishing Company.[29]

    In 2010, Ancestry.com expanded its domestic operations with the opening of an office in San Francisco, California, staffed with brand new engineering, product, and marketing teams geared toward developing some of Ancestry's cutting-edge technology and services. In 2011, Ancestry launched an Android and iOS app.[30] [31]

    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.[32]

    In March 2012, Ancestry.com acquired the collection of DNA assets from GeneTree.[33]

    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 center for international customers, as well as product, marketing, and engineering teams.[34] [35]

    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.[36] At the same time, Ancestry.com purchased a photo digitization and sharing service called 1000Memories.[37]

    In 2013, Ancestry acquired Find a Grave from Jim Tipton, who had created the original site in 1995. Ancestry subsequently launched a redesigned version of Find a Grave in 2017.

    On July 16, 2015, Ancestry launched AncestryHealth, and announced the appointment of Cathy A. Petti as its Chief Health Officer.[38] That year, Ancestry partnered with the Google subsidiary, Calico, to focus on longevity research and therapeutics, in an effort to investigate human heredity of lifespan.[39] [40]

    In April 2016, GIC Private Limited (a sovereign wealth fund owned by the Government of Singapore) and Silver Lake (a private equity fund manager) bought equity stakes in Ancestry.com.[41] The estimated market value of Ancestry.com in 2017 was more than $3 billion.[42]

    In June 2017, Ancestry.com informed that it was migrating all of its applications and data to Amazon Web Services (AWS).[43] [44]

    Through vintage photographs, a woman was able to document eight generations of her family, dating back to 1805, including an interracial couple.[45] A controversial Ancestry.com advertisement had run on television stations in Utah, showing a slavery-era interracial couple. The advertisement was criticized by a news correspondent for Boston radio station WBUR-FM and MSNBC, and law professor Melissa Murray, on the grounds that it romanticized slavery in the antebellum South. In April 2019, Ancestry withdrew the advertisement with an apology.[46]

    In November 2018, Ancestry claimed to have over 10 billion digitized records and over three-million paying customers.[47]

    In December 2018, after authorities arrested the Golden State Killer and used GEDmatch to solve the case, Ancestry.com and 23andMe announced a data policy that they would not allow their DNA profiles to be used for crime solving without a valid legal process such as a search warrant, as they believe it violates users' privacy.[48] [49] In the 2021 case of the murder of George Seitz, Ancestry.com was used to help identify the remains of a crime victim.[50]

    2020–present

    In August 2020, The Blackstone Group announced plans to acquire Ancestry for $4.7 billion, and in December 2020 the acquisition occurred.

    In February 2021, Ancestry announced Deb Liu, a former Facebook executive, as their CEO effective March 1.[51]

    In November 2021, Ancestry announced the acquisition of French Genealogy Company Geneanet.[52]

    AncestryDNA

    AncestryDNA is a subsidiary of Ancestry LLC. AncestryDNA offers a direct-to-consumer genealogical DNA test.[53] Consumers provide a sample of their DNA to the company for analysis. AncestryDNA then uses DNA sequences to infer family relationships with other Ancestry DNA users and to provide what it calls an "ethnicity estimate". This "ethnicity estimate" uses 700,000 markers which is only about .02% of all genetic markers that could be tested.[54] Customers should not believe they are seeing all of their ethnic background, but taking multiple tests is useful when combined with using ancestry.com's genealogy web searches to find possible unexpected admixtures. Previously, Ancestry.com also offered paternal Y-chromosome DNA and maternal mitochondrial DNA tests, but those were discontinued in June 2014.[55] The company describes the technical process of testing in a scientific white paper. In July 2020, the company claimed that their database contained 18 million completed DNA kits bought by customers.[56] [57]

    Ancestry DNA is commonly used for donor conceived persons to find their biological siblings and in some cases their sperm or egg donor.[58]

    The testing itself is performed by Quest Diagnostics.[59]

    For the people who activate the DNA test, Ancestry offers the possibility to participate into Human Diversity Project, a "scientific research project aimed at helping scientists better understand population history, human migration, and human health".[60] [61]

    Members can also pay an additional fee to access DNA traits, which range from predicted physical traits to limited health data.

    Know Your Pet DNA

    Since 2023, Ancestry has also offered genetic testing for pets, which at the moment is limited to dogs. The test compares the DNA to over 400 breeds.

    FindAGrave

    See main article: Find a Grave.

    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 launched a mobile app in March 2014.[62]

    Fold3

    Fold3 is an online database with military records, including stories, photos, and personal documents.

    iArchives, Inc., and its footnote.com service, was acquired in 2010 for 1.022 million common stock shares. The purchase brought in assets including processes for digitalizing documents on microfilm.[63] [64] Footnote would be rebranded Fold3 in 2011.[65]

    Geneanet

    See main article: Geneanet.

    On August 31, 2021, Ancestry.com announced its acquisition of Geneanet. Geneanet explains that the acquisition by Ancestry is the consequence of the failure of the Filae negotiations with the birth of a formidable competitor. The Geneanet.org site, which must remain autonomous, indicates that it will give access to many databases indexed by Ancestry within the framework of Premium subscriptions.[66]

    Archives.com

    Archives.com was bought by Ancestry for $100 million in 2012.[67] Archives.com is a genealogy website specializing in census and vital records. As of November 29, 2023, Archives.com claimed 11.8 billion photos, newspapers, census, and vital records in its collections.[68]

    Newspapers.com

    In 2012, Ancestry spun off its digitized online newspaper components into a standalone service, Newspapers.com.[69] By 2024, the site had over 25,000 newspapers able to be searched including some from 10 different countries.

    The website's principal competitor is Newspaperarchive.com which claims it has online newspapers dating from 1607 worldwide, and its index in March 2024 included over 16,000 newspapers.[70] Both websites have similar models for increasing their databases: striking deals with libraries, publishers and historical organizations to scan the publications for free to include in their database. Some participants see the process of free scanning as an easier, cheaper and quicker way to get their publications online than working through the U.S. government-operated National Digital Newspaper Program.[71] [72]

    RootsWeb

    RootsWeb, acquired by Ancestry in June 2000, is a free genealogy community that uses online forums, mailing lists, and other resources to help people research their family history. 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.

    On December 20, 2017, a file containing 300,000 RootsWeb user names, passwords, and email addresses was exposed to the internet. The 300,000 records were from RootsWeb surname list service; 55,000 of those records were also Ancestry.com login credentials.[73] By 2024, the hosted websites were all read-only disabling all user logins.

    We Remember

    We Remember is a free online memorial platform,[74] which was launched by Ancestry in November 2017.[75] [76] It allows users to create a space to preserve and share photos and videos about the deceased.[77]

    Forces War Records

    Acquired by Ancestry on May 24, 2021, Forces War Records is a British military genealogy-specialist website with a unique product that helps people both discover and contextualize their family's military history.[78]

    Past products

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    Notes and References

    1. https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/about-ancestry/company-facts About 'Ancestry' — Company facts
    2. https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/about-ancestry/company-facts About 'Ancestry' – Corporate facts
    3. News: Blackstone snaps up Ancestry.com in $4.7bn deal . Financial Times. Aliaj. Ortenca. Wiggins. Kaye. August 5, 2020. August 5, 2020. subscription.
    4. Web site: Lehi-based Ancestry acquired in $4.7 billion deal. August 6, 2020. KSL.com .
    5. Web site: Blackstone Completes Acquisition of Ancestry®, Leading Online Family History Business, for $4.7 Billion. December 4, 2020 .
    6. Web site: We're increasing our monthly subscription prices to help provide you with more content and new product features. Ancestry.com.
    7. Web site: Holland . Jake . Stoller . Daniel R. . With Congress Quiet, States Step in to Safeguard Genetic Privacy . Bloomberg Law . November 12, 2020 . https://archive.today/20201112230444/https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/with-congress-quiet-states-step-in-to-safeguard-genetic-privacy . November 12, 2020 . September 1, 2020 . 23andMe sold 12 million kits through 2019 and Ancestry has over 18 million people in its DNA network, according to a company spokeswoman. . live .
    8. Web site: Ancestry.com to Improve Ability to Trace Lineage of More Ethnicities, Says CEO.
    9. Web site: Site Map - Ancestry . www.ancestry.com . 6 July 2024.
    10. Web site: Our Story. ancestry.com/corporate.
    11. Web site: Ancestry Moves Further into Consumer Genetics. MIT Technology Review. May 11, 2016.
    12. News: Backing into a lucrative business. Walker. Joseph. June 11, 2000. Deseret News. February 26, 2017.
    13. News: Let a mouse guide your scripture search. Deseret News. April 3, 1995.
    14. News: LDS Materials Available Online. Deseret News. August 3, 1995.
    15. Web site: About Western Standard Publishing . September 21, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080616100540/http://www.westernstandard.com/about.htm . June 16, 2008 . dead .
    16. News: Genealogy business booms as boomers seek out roots. Deseret News. April 5, 1997.
    17. News: Western Standard sells interest in business magazine to Utah County man. Deseret News. June 4, 1997.
    18. News: Infobases acquires LDS publishing house. Deseret News. July 1, 1997.
    19. News: Happily joined. Deseret News. April 5, 1998.
    20. Web site: Infobase Ventures Portfolio Companies . https://web.archive.org/web/20070528152733/http://www.infobaseventures.com/our_companies.html . Infobase Ventures. May 28, 2007 . April 21, 2008.
    21. News: Deseret Book parent announces plans to acquire Bookcraft. Deseret News. February 9, 1999.
    22. News: Acquisition of Bookcraft finalized. Deseret News. April 1, 1999.
    23. Web site: MyFamily.com begins offering free sites . March 11, 1999 . December 26, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20061116165038/http://trends.masie.com/archives/1999/03/110_updates_on.html . November 16, 2006 . dead .
    24. News: Ancestry.com, Inc. Changes Corporate Name to MyFamily.com, Inc.. Ancestry.com. November 17, 1999.
    25. Web site: My Companies: A Chronological View of My Entrepreneurial Endeavors . Paul Allen . paulallen.net . May 20, 2006 . April 21, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080418104914/http://www.paulallen.net/my-companies/ . April 18, 2008 . dead .
    26. News: MyFamily growing in Utah . . April 13, 2004 . April 21, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080421101121/http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0%2C1249%2C595055685%2C00.html . April 21, 2008 . dead .
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    28. Web site: Ancestry.com explores an IPO. BloggingStocks.com. February 27, 2011. May 1, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110501082007/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/11/05/ancestry-com-explores-an-ipo/. dead.
    29. Jim Milliot, "Turner Publishing Buys Ancestry Publishing Assets," Publishers Weekly, March 23, 2010.
    30. Web site: Ancestry.com updates app with iPad optimization. Macworld. May 11, 2016.
    31. Web site: Ancestry app is the perfect companion for researching family tree history . March 5, 2012. AndroidTapp . May 11, 2016.
    32. News: Sterman . Joce . Website stops displaying Social Security numbers for recently dead . ABC2 . December 14, 2011. December 21, 2011. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120110115351/http://www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/local_news/investigations/website-stops-displaying-social-security-numbers-for-recently-dead . January 10, 2012.
    33. http://www.yourgeneticgenealogist.com/2012/05/ancestrycom-buys-genetree-and-launches.html Ancestry.com buys GeneTree and launches new service
    34. Web site: Kennedy. John Fintan. Ancestry.com to create 50 new jobs at international HQ in Dublin. July 11, 2012. Silicon Republic. August 1, 2013. Ancestry.com’s Dublin employees will include staff working within management and finance functions, as well as website developers and member service agents..
    35. News: Flanagan . Peter . Genealogy giant sold for €1.2bn months after Dublin move. August 1, 2013. Irish Independent. October 23, 2012. It set up in Ireland last year but in July confirmed it would open its European headquarters on Sir John Rogerson's Quay in Dublin, and started taking on around 35 staff from September..
    36. News: Ancestry.com Acquired by Private Equity Group for $1.6 Billion. The Descrier. October 22, 2012.
    37. News: Ancestry.com Acquires Photo Digitization And Sharing Service 1000memories. TechCrunch. October 3, 2012.
    38. Web site: Ancestry.com launches health website, positions itself as budding 23andMe competitor. July 16, 2015. MobiHealthNews. May 11, 2016.
    39. News: Google is on a mission to figure out how and why we age . Ramsey . Lydia . July 22, 2015. Business Insider. May 31, 2018.
    40. Web site: The Long Game: Google-Backed Calico Partners With Ancestry to Beat the Specter of Aging. Bergen. Mark. July 26, 2015. Recode. May 18, 2016.
    41. News: Permira trebles money by selling Ancestry stake to Silver Lake, GIC . Or . Amy . April 5, 2016. Financial News. May 31, 2018 .
    42. News: Ancestry.com Is Close to Hiring Banks for 2017 IPO. Porter. Keil. July 19, 2017. Bloomberg . May 31, 2018 . Sherman . Alex .
    43. Web site: Ancestry Goes All-in on AWS.
    44. Web site: AWS Fargate Customers.
    45. News: Was Interracial Love Possible in the Days of Slavery? Descendants of One Couple Think So. The love affair could have been lost if not for Paula Wright, a seventh-generation descendant of the couple who inherited vintage photographs that inspired her to document eight generations of her family, dating to 1805.. Hassan. Adeel. The New York Times. October 21, 2018 . July 18, 2022.
    46. News: Ancestry.com Apologizes for Ad Showing Slavery-Era Interracial Couple. Holson. Laura M.. The New York Times. April 19, 2019. July 8, 2022.
    47. News: Ancestry Breaks November Sales Record. Spatafore. Gina. November 29, 2018. Business Wire. November 30, 2018 .
    48. Web site: News: DNA Testing? You Might Want to Wait for More Legal Protection. Dana A.. Elfin. bloomberglaw.com.
    49. Web site: Deleting Consumer DNA from the Internet . Dark Daily. December 24, 2018 .
    50. News: Watkins. Ali. Schweber. Nate. November 4, 2021. Bones in the Backyard: How Police Cracked a Grisly Cold Case . The New York Times . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/nyregion/bones-cold-case-nyc.html . December 28, 2021 . limited. November 8, 2021. 0362-4331.
    51. Web site: Stych . Anne . February 3, 2021 . Ancestry taps Facebook exec as new CEO . March 6, 2022 . Bizwomen . American City Business Journals.
    52. Web site: Leading French Genealogy Company, Geneanet, Joins Ancestry . Ancestry.com .
    53. Web site: 23andme relaunches its expanded DNA spit tests after FDA-mandated pause . USA TODAY . May 11, 2016.
    54. Web site: AncestryDNA . About AncestryDNA . Ancestry.com . November 8, 2020.
    55. Web site: Ancestry.com Pulls the Plug on Several Sites . July 15, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140715104546/http://geneabloggers.com/ancestrycom-pulls-plug-sites/. July 15, 2014. dead .
    56. Web site: Ancestry's DNA network reaches 15 million test samples. Santry. Claire . May 22, 2019. Irish Genealogy News . May 24, 2019.
    57. News: 2017 was the year consumer DNA testing blew up . Regalado . Antonio . February 12, 2018. MIT Technology Review . February 20, 2018 .
    58. News: No more Mr. Anonymous for sperm donors - CBC News. Emily . Chung . Melanie . Glanz . Vik . Adhopia . January 25, 2018 . CBC.
    59. Web site: AncestryDNA Uses Quest Diagnostics to Sequence DNA Dark Daily . www.darkdaily.com . July 21, 2017 . November 14, 2018.
    60. News: . The Best DNA Testing Kit . Brishette Mendoza . Amadou Diallo . December 10, 2021 . July 18, 2022.
    61. Web site: AncestryDNA® Research Project. February 13, 2022 . ancestrySupport. https://web.archive.org/web/20220213012739/https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/AncestryDNA-Research-Project?language=en_US. February 13, 2022 . live.
    62. Web site: The Ancestry Insider: Ancestry.com Releases Find-A-Grave App. www.ancestryinsider.org. May 18, 2016.
    63. Web site: October 21, 2010 . Ancestry.com Inc. Completes Acquisition of iArchives - Business - Press Releases . April 4, 2018 . NBC News.
    64. Web site: September 23, 2010 . More on Ancestry.com's Acquisition of Footnote . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180404200935/https://www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/genealogy-websites/ancestry/more-on-ancestry-coms-acquisition-of-footnote/ . April 4, 2018 . April 4, 2018.
    65. Web site: Kate Theimer . August 19, 2011 . News: Footnote is now Fold3. Does that make sense to you? Me neither. And we're not alone – ArchivesNext . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110909032000/http://archivesnext.com/?p=2294 . September 9, 2011 . April 4, 2018 . Archivesnext.com.
    66. Web site: Généalogie . La Revue française de . Geneanet racheté par Ancestry leader mondial de la généalogie . March 30, 2023 . La Revue française de Généalogie . fr.
    67. Web site: April 25, 2012 . Ancestry.com Acquires Archives.com For $100 Million – TechCrunch . April 4, 2018 . Techcrunch.com.
    68. Web site: Genealogy & Family History Search Family Trees & Vital Records . 2023-11-29 . www.archives.com.
    69. Hilburn . Jessica . Discovering the Past Through Newspapers: Newspapers.com and NewspaperArchive.com . Online Searcher . March/April 2021 . 31 October 2023 . Information Today.
    70. Web site: NewspaperArchive | Genealogy & Family History Records . Newspaperarchive.com . June 30, 2018.
    71. Web site: Jim Epstein . May 18, 2014 . A Retiree Digitizes 27 Million Old Newspaper Pages in His Living Room (and Libraries Fight to Catch Up) - Hit & Run . Reason.com . March 31, 2018.
    72. Web site: Amateur Beats Gov't at Digitizing Newspapers: Tom Tryniski's Weird, Wonderful Website . Epstein . Jim . Reason.com . March 5, 2013 . February 3, 2020.
    73. Web site: Exposed File From Ancestry's RootsWeb.com Contains Data on 300,000 Users . Dark Reading . December 28, 2017 .
    74. Web site: Create an Online Memorial and Share Memories . WeRemember.com.
    75. Web site: Introducing We Remember - Free Online Memorials . Ancestry.com . November 15, 2017 . October 30, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201030102950/https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/introducing-we-remember-free-online-memorials/ . dead .
    76. Web site: Creating "We Remember" Memorials on Ancestry.com - FREE, Easy? . Seaver . Randy . Genea-Musings . November 15, 2017.
    77. Web site: Introducing the WeRemember.com Memorialization Service . Rubin . Gail . A Good Goodbye . December 20, 2018.
    78. Web site: Forces War Records Joins the Ancestry® Family. ancestry.com. May 25, 2021.
    79. Web site: tamurajones.net . RootsMagic Essentials, Modern Software Experience . November 20, 2009 .
    80. Web site: Family Origins Newsletter . FormalSoft.com . January 1, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110529044349/http://www.formalsoft.com/newsltr.htm . May 29, 2011 . 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.'). 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... .
    81. Web site: Family Origins Discontinued . Powell . Kimberly . About.com . January 1, 2011 . June 15, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110615182322/http://genealogy.about.com/library/bl_family_origins.htm .
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