Ancestry.co.uk, the UK’s favourite family history website, offering members access to 1 billion searchable UK family history records. Launched in 2002, Ancestry.co.uk’s extensive collection enables members to explore their family history using censuses, the fully indexed 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 the Ancestry.com global network of family history websites. In addition to its flagship site www.ancestry.com, the network includes several Ancestry international websites including Ancestry.ca (Canada), Ancestry.com.au (Australia), Ancestry.de (Germany), Ancestry.it (Italy), Ancestry.fr (France) and Ancestry.se (Sweden). Ancestry.com also operates a suite of online family history brands including Archives.com, Fold3.com and Newspapers.com, all designed to empower people to discover, preserve and share their family history.
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(1) ) Source: most recent company figures publicly available as at 21 November 2013