About
Ancestry.com is a site dedicated to family history. It’s a place to learn about family members who came before. With billions of records at your fingertips, the odds of finding a relative are pretty good.
Aside from searching our historical records collections, you can easily organize your family history. Create detailed profiles for each family member, upload personal photographs and documents for safekeeping, add biographical timelines – even record and save oral histories and video. Not quite up to the task of gathering your family history by yourself? Invite other family members into your tree to help and to share with them what you’ve already created.
Ancestry.com is not new to the field of family history. We’ve been in the online business for more than a decade, and a lot of folks come to us to discover their roots. Roughly 775,000 members and 14 million registered users subscribe to our site, and they tend to keep pretty busy. Within the last year, they have:
- Created 11 million family trees
- Uploaded 22 million photo, scanned documents, written stories and audio clips
- Attached 273 million family history records from our company-acquired content collections
For those of you who know us well, did you know:
- Most names: The largest family tree on Ancestry.com contains 260,000 names
- Most photos: One family tree on our site houses 3,500 photos
- Most shared: One Ancestry.com user has shared his tree with 180 people
Thanks for taking the time to get to know us better. We look forward to your feedback in helping us shape and develop an even greater product. If you have any questions contact us, and for specific questions for Customer Support contact support @ ancestry.com or 1-800-ANCESTRY.

