ancestry.com

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: –
Closest alternative: MyHeritage

Measured from Ancestry’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · 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

No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan

None of the 60 sites closest to Ancestry match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

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 and search numbers · 12 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,216
Vector: 384-d
Query: 42 ms

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.