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Ancestry
Who runs Ancestry, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online genealogy alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- MyHeritage
Measured from Ancestry’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Ancestry01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Ancestry
Ancestry ancestry.com
Wikidata: genealogy website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What Ancestry tracks
We couldn’t read ancestry.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Ancestry
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Ancestry, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read ancestry.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01 MyHeritage myheritage.com
online genealogy platform with web, mobile, and software products and services
Very close - 02 Findmypast findmypast.com
online genealogy service based in the UK
Very close - 03 Geni geni.com
American commercial genealogy and social networking website
Very close - 04
DNA Genetic Testing For Ancestry & Traits - 23andMe International
23andMe is a saliva-based DNA service. We provide genetic reports on your ancestry, family history and help you connect with your DNA relatives.
Very close - 05
U.S. Mormon genealogical organization and website
Very close - 06
Filae.com : La généalogie : Etat-civil, faire son arbre généalogique rapidement en ligne, archives départementales, science héraldique, patronyme
Filae.com : le portail de la généalogie en France pour consulter son Etat-civil en ligne et construire son arbre généalogique gratuitement.
Very close - 07
international genealogy database
Very close - 08 WikiTree wikitree.com
genealogy website operated by Interesting.com, Inc. of New York
Very close - 09 BillionGraves billiongraves.com
online database of burials
Very close - 10
Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records
The World’s largest gravesite collection. Contribute, create and discover gravesites from all over the world. Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records.
Very close - 11
Interment.net - Cemetery Records Online
Search millions of cemetery records from cemeteries around the world. Browse burial records by country, state, county, and city.
Very close - 12
Everyday Information - Check People, Phone Numbers, Vehicles & Properties | BeenVerified
Search public records & VIN numbers online. Uncover names, phone numbers, social profiles & emails. Check vehicle history for all car make & models. Start your search today!
Very close - 13
Whitepages: People Search, Phone Numbers & Addresses
Founded in 1997, Whitepages is the largest U.S. directory and trusted source for contact info and property data. Find people, phone numbers, addresses, and emails nationwide. Free and premium search across the Whitepages Identity Graph: 350M+ identity records, 4B+ data linkages, 112M+ property records.
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SEO Backlink Checker & Link Building Toolset | Majestic.com
Develop backlink strategies with our Link Intelligence data, build the strongest SEO backlink campaigns to drive organic traffic and boost your rankings today.
Very close - 15
Serpstat – Marketing Tool for SEO and Content Tasks
Boost your online presence with Serpstat ➤ A powerful tool for ✓ Backlinks Analysis ✓ Rank Tracking ✓ Keyword Research ✓ Competitor Analysis ✓ Site Audit
Very close - 16
Property Data & Owner Search | DealMachine
Find property and owner data with DealMachine. Real estate investors can search properties, skip trace owners, and build lead lists. Explore the tools.
Very close - 17 tesco.com Top 10K
online service offered by Tesco
Close - 18 Web.com web.com
American web registration and development company
Very close - 19
American real estate website
Close - 20
SpyFu - Competitor Keyword Research Tools for Google Ads PPC & SEO
Search for a competitor. See their PPC and SEO secrets, download their best keywords, get the backlinks that drive their rankings, and laugh at their mistakes.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Ancestry’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Ancestry uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Ancestry adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 27 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Ancestry’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fd985aaa9303-HAM
- Email hosting
- Proofpoint MX mxb-002f8e01.gslb.pphosted.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1429.awsdns-50.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=1222e2336a518f7a8664dbdc6462f85d80c35afb4…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=aRPuENZQPpkMdwYD
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=w3rz7z0y8xvagZiMhu44qJQUXTISEt1vlB5JLH4…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=60713c36-f380-42c6-bc97-c0a2f7bb0288
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=kXS4kgWQ9hbGjWDmISoLGlXLaOx8-EdTig6ux…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=xzRJaI_84GE45yCfP1XGewPRGYGYtoKN2taBi0W1tvw
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=jyq4fxqp7asgs8a4uos7lv175smrw0
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-m5ulmmlnY2Bbs21oMqlkLx91
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_pUR3qD3KTUmjq_VepUKiNQ
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Cloudflare 11/20
- Google Workspace · not on ancestry.com 10/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on ancestry.com 10/20
- Atlassian 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on ancestry.com 9/20
- Amazon SES · not on ancestry.com 7/20
- Zendesk · not on ancestry.com 7/20
- OpenAI 7/20
- Apple Business 6/20
- Meta Business Suite 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on ancestry.com 6/20
- GlobalSign 5/20
- Stripe · not on ancestry.com 5/20
- Zoom 5/20
- Adobe 4/20