Friday, November 11, 2022

History of Ancestry

 



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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