1983 -- Ancestry Publishing is founded, publishing over 40 family history magazines and genealogy reference books
1990 - Ancestry publications move to floppy disks
1996 - Ancestry.com is launched, paving the way for online family history
1997 - Ancestry offers family history on CDs (compilations of those who use Family Tree Maker)
2000 - Ancestry launches first census images; completes 1930 census in 2003
2001 - Ancestry reaches the 1,000,000,000 record milestone; Ancestry.co.uk debuts
2006 - Ancestry introduces Australian, Canadian and German sites/records
2006 - Ancestry adds new customer-centric innovations (shaky leaf hints and member trees)
2007 - Ancestry adds more international sites, inc. French, Italian, Swedish and Chinese
2009 - Ancestry reaches the 1,000,000 subscriber mark
2010 - Ancestry offers the first season of Who Do You Think You Are?
2011 - Ancestry unveils the Ancestry app for iPad and iPhone
2012 - Ancestry hits the 2,000,000 subscriber mark
2012 - Ancestry DNA is launched
2013 - Ancestry announces exclusive agreement with FamilySearch to digitize one billion records
from its Granita Mountain Vault
2015 - Ancestry releases exclusive collection of U.S. wills and probate records
2018 - Ancestry achieves 10,000,000 people tested via AncestryDNA; 15,000,000 in 2019
2020 - Ancestry reaches over 3.5 million subscribers and 27 billion records
2021 - AncestryDNA tests over 20,000,000 people
2022 - AncestryDNA becomes worldwide
** The above image shows Ancestry's first magazine publication, 1985-2010. These early publications can be accessed via Google Books.
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