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Ancestry.com Inc.

American online genealogy company
Organization business Q4752572
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Financials

Self-reported XBRL data from 3 annual filings
Revenue
$683.11M
▲ 10.3% YoY FY2015
Net Income
$29.42M
▲ 257.1% YoY FY2015
Assets
$1.62B
▼ 5.8% YoY FY2015
$0.00$187.85M$375.71M$563.56M$751.42M FY2013: $540.39M · NI -$79.70M (-14.7% margin)FY2014: $619.54M · NI -$18.73M (-3.0% margin)FY2015: $683.11M · NI $29.42M (4.3% margin) '13'14'15
■ Revenue ■ Net Income
Source: SEC EDGAR · latest 10-K filed 2015-12-31 · accession 0001575319-16-000021

Ancestry.com Inc.

Summary

Ancestry.com Inc. is a business[1]. Ancestry.com Inc. ranks in the top 2% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,228 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s field of work was genealogy[3].
  • Ancestry.com Inc. received the BigBrotherAwards[4].
  • Ancestry.com Inc. is in the country of United States[5].
  • Ancestry.com Inc. is in the country of US[6].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s instance of is recorded as business[7].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s instance of is recorded as database[8].
  • Ancestry.com Inc. is owned by Blackstone Inc.[9].
  • Ancestry is named after Ancestry.com Inc.[10].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s headquarters location is recorded as Lehi[11].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s Commons category is recorded as Ancestry.com[12].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s review score is recorded as 3.8/5[13].
  • 1983 marks the founding of Ancestry.com Inc.[14].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 40.772471822570736, 'lon': -111.89072328317832}[15].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s official website is recorded as https://www.ancestry.com/[16].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s product or material produced is recorded as software[17].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Ancestry.com Inc.'}[18].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s legal form is recorded as Delaware corporation[19].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s legal form is recorded as XTIQ[20].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s owner of is recorded as ProGenealogists[21].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s owner of is recorded as IArchives, Inc.[22].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s owner of is recorded as Fold3[23].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s owner of is recorded as Newspapers.com[24].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s owner of is recorded as genealogy.com[25].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s owner of is recorded as Ancestry[26].
  • Ancestry.com Inc.'s owner of is recorded as archives.com[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300NI5TRMWT8VWC40[28]

  • Registered legal name: Ancestry.com Inc.[29]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[30]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[31]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XTIQ[32]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[33]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[34]

  • LEI first registered: 2013-07-23[35]

  • LEI last updated: 2023-08-04[36]

  • LEI next renewal: 2017-12-28[37]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[38]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[39]

  • Authority entity ID: 4431031[40]

  • Other names: The Generations Network[41]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[42]

Body

Founding

1983 marks the founding of Ancestry.com Inc.[14].

Identity

Ancestry.com Inc.'s official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Ancestry.com Inc.'}[18].

Operations

Ancestry.com Inc.'s headquarters location is recorded as Lehi[11].

Industry

Ancestry.com Inc.'s field of work was genealogy[3].

Ownership

Ancestry.com Inc. is owned by Blackstone Inc.[9]. Ancestry.com Inc.'s product or material produced is recorded as software[17].

Recognition

Ancestry.com Inc. received the BigBrotherAwards[4].

Why It Matters

Ancestry.com Inc. ranks in the top 2% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,228 views/month).[2] Ancestry.com Inc. has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] Ancestry.com Inc. is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]

FAQs

What awards did Ancestry.com Inc. receive?

Honors received include BigBrotherAwards[4].

Related Entities

Blackstone Inc. business ProGenealogists software United States

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . National Software Reference Library. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . blackstone.com. Retrieved . blackstone.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . ancestry.com. Retrieved . ancestry.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [4] ↑ . media.ccc.de. Retrieved . media.ccc.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Glassdoor. Retrieved . glassdoor.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . ancestry.com. Retrieved . ancestry.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . National Software Reference Library. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . ancestry.com. Retrieved . ancestry.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . ancestry.com. Retrieved . ancestry.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . ancestry.com. Retrieved . ancestry.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . ancestry.com. Retrieved . ancestry.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . ancestry.com. Retrieved . ancestry.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [35] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [36] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [37] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [38] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [39] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [40] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [41] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [42] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [43] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [44] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Owner of → ProGenealogists, IArchives, Inc., Fold3 +5
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