Company Overview
Ancestry.co.uk, the UK’s leading family history site, offering members access to 820 million searchable UK family history records. Launched in 2001, Ancestry.co.uk’s extensive collection enables members to explore their family history using censuses, birth, marriage and death records, passenger lists, the British phone books, military and parish records. Members can also explore names in other family trees and upload photographs of their own, and in doing so connect to millions of other members making their own discoveries.
Ancestry.co.uk is part of a global network of Ancestry sites, which includes Ancestry.com in the U.S., Ancestry.ca in Canada, Ancestry.com.au in Australia, Ancestry.de in Germany, Ancestry.it in Italy, Ancestry.fr in France, Ancestry.se in Sweden and Jiapu.com in China.
Ancestry.co.uk facts and figures:
- A member of the Ancestry global network of family history websites
- 820 million searchable UK family history records
- The most comprehensive online collection of England, Wales and Scotland Censuses from 1841 to 1901, England and Wales Birth, Marriage and Death records from 1837 to 2005, the British phone books, 1880 to 1984, UK Incoming Passenger Lists from 1878 to 1960 and other records dating back before the 1300s
- The world’s largest collection of family trees with more than 1.25 billion names from over 100 countries in 12 million member trees
- 80 per cent of Brits consider knowing their family history to be important
The Ancestry international network*:
- 4 billion family history records
- 12 million member trees
- 1.25 billion names uploaded to those trees by Ancestry users
- 8.2 million unique site visitors each month
- 500 employees worldwide
- 26 million photographs and stories uploaded
* All figures current as at September 30, 2009
Sources: ComScore, YouGov and Company data