familysearch.org
FamilySearch
Who runs FamilySearch, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest genealogy alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Geni
Measured from FamilySearch’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit FamilySearch01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs FamilySearch
FamilySearch familysearch.org
Wikidata: U.S. Mormon genealogical organization and website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What FamilySearch tracks
We couldn’t read familysearch.org’s homepage (HTTP 403), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to FamilySearch
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to FamilySearch, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read familysearch.org’s homepage (HTTP 403), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01 Geni geni.com
American commercial genealogy and social networking website
Very close - 02 WikiTree wikitree.com
genealogy website operated by Interesting.com, Inc. of New York
Very close - 03
genealogy website
Very close - 04 MyHeritage myheritage.com
online genealogy platform with web, mobile, and software products and services
Very close - 05 Findmypast findmypast.com
online genealogy service based in the UK
Very close - 06
international genealogy database
Very close - 07
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 - 08 BillionGraves billiongraves.com
online database of burials
Very close - 09
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 - 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
National Archives | Home
National Archives and Records Administration
Very close - 12
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Discover a service-oriented, globally-connected Christian church that is led by a prophet of God and seeks to follow Jesus Christ and His restored gospel.
Very close - 13
Welcome to The National Archives
Explore 1,000 years of history with the official national archive of the UK Government.
Very close - 14
American aggregation platform providing open access to digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums.
Very close - 15
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Close - 16
Home | Library of Congress
The world's largest library. View historic photos, maps, books and more. Contact experts for help with research. Plan a visit. Home of U.S. Copyright Office.
Close - 17
Jehovah’s Witnesses—Official Website: jw.org | English
Jehovah’s Witnesses: Our official website provides online access to the Bible, Bible-based publications, and current news. It describes our beliefs and organization.
Close - 18
Home | Grants.gov
USA federal website
Close - 19
United States Courts
third constitutional branch of government
Close - 20 vatican.va Top 10K
largest Christian Church, made up of 24 autonomous Churches in communion with the Pope, part of the Latin Church aka Latin Christianity a.k.a. western Christianity
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles FamilySearch’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones FamilySearch 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 FamilySearch 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 · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,201
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 57 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to FamilySearch’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
- Security
- Imperva header x-iinfo: 58-2900030-0 SNNN RT(1793957535443 286) q(0 -1 -1 2) r(0 -1…
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX familysearch-org.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-757.awsdns-30.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=3Dqf1aq/7c1KdbsLIafbqX74I0vcW6pAbM0v6oc…
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=e4s77r1l6tcc
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=6KKVYhlRvHTViW2RA7A5__ZXTikT7uAf03ePMNessFo
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-OTE6I3HmNfgihqGQHdzBzg3I
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_lMC9_ljtQY2vqNUrobjHSw
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Atlassian 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on familysearch.org 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on familysearch.org 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on familysearch.org 6/20
- Google Workspace · not on familysearch.org 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on familysearch.org 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on familysearch.org 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 4/20
- Adobe · not on familysearch.org 4/20
- Apple Business · not on familysearch.org 4/20
- OpenAI 3/20
- Proofpoint · not on familysearch.org 3/20
- Zoom 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on familysearch.org 3/20