Government & Law Enforcement
Requests for Customer Data
January - December 2025 Government & Law Enforcement
Requests for Customer Data
January - December 2025

Ancestry Transparency Reports Government & Law Enforcement

27 February 2026

This report covers legal requests addressed to all Ancestry brands in 2025. Prior reports concerning government and law enforcement legal requests can be found linked at the bottom of this section.

At Ancestry, your privacy is a top priority. Ancestry is committed to being a good steward of your Personal Information (as defined in our Privacy Statement), handling it in a responsible manner, and securing it with administrative, technical, organizational, and physical safeguards. As explained in our Guide for Law Enforcement, and Ancestry’s Position on Law Enforcement and Your Privacy, Ancestry requires legal process from law enforcement or government agencies before it will consider producing your data.

Ancestry’s Terms and Conditions, cover data you may provide in connection with Ancestry’s DNA services (DNA data), as well as your content and data provided in the course of using Ancestry’s other services (non-DNA data, such as family trees, family history records, newspapers, etc.).

Ancestry validates all legal process-based requests before disclosing data. The legal process must comply with applicable law, due process, and include specific identifiers that enable Ancestry to search for specific and particular records that may be responsive to the legal process.  At a minimum, we insist on a court order or search warrant before we will consider producing customer DNA data. We may also challenge legal process, especially warrants and orders for customer DNA data.

Overview

US-based requests

  • Ancestry received 0 valid requests for access to customers’ DNA data between January 1 and December 31, 2025.
  • Ancestry received 9 valid law enforcement requests seeking non-DNA customer data in criminal investigations involving alleged crimes, such as credit card misuse, fraud, and/or identity theft. Ancestry provided data in response to 7 of these requests.

International Requests

Ancestry received no valid requests from outside the United States.

National Security Requests

As of December 31, 2025, Ancestry has never received a classified request pursuant to the national security laws of the United States or any other country. In other words, Ancestry has not received a National Security Letter or a request under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

As of December 31, 2025, Ancestry has not been served with legal process under the national security laws of any nation.

Number of Requests per Ancestry Website

11% 89%

Ancestry.com (8)
Find A Grave (1)

Jurisdiction

44% 56%

U.S. State (4)
U.S. Federal (5)
International (0)

Type of Request

100%

Search Warrant (N/A)
Criminal Subpoena (9)
Administrative Subpoena (N/A)
Emergency Request (N/A)