Company overview

Ancestry.com.au, Australia's most popular family history site, offers members access to 800 million names.

Launched in 2005, Ancestry's historical record collection reflects Australia’s multicultural heritage and enables members to explore their family’s history using Australian and international records including the convict lists, electoral rolls, passenger lists, English, Welsh and Scottish censuses, birth, marriage and death records as well as user-contributed family trees, and by connecting to millions of other members making their own discoveries.

Ancestry.com.au is part of a global network of Ancestry websites that includes Ancestry.co.uk in the UK, Ancestry.com in the U.S., Ancestry.ca in Canada, Ancestry.de in Germany, Ancestry.it in Italy, Ancestry.se in Sweden and Ancestry.fr in France.

Ancestry.com.au facts and figures

• A member of the Ancestry global network of family history websites
• 800 million searchable names
• Record collections including the Convict Lists from 1788 to 1868, The Australian Electoral Rolls from 1901 to 1936, The Bounty Passenger Lists, the seven currently available England, Wales and Scotland Censuses from 1841 to 1901, England and Wales Birth, Marriage and Death records from 1837 to 2005 and other records dating back before the 1300s
• The world’s largest collection of family trees with more than 450 million names from over 100 countries
• 90 per cent of Australians consider knowing their family history to be important

The Ancestry international network

• 8 Ancestry websites – and growing
• 5 billion searchable names
• 15 million Ancestry site users
• 10.4 million unique site visitors each month
• 450 million page views per month
• 500 employees worldwide
• 5 million member trees
• 5.9 million photographs uploaded

Sources: ComScore Europe, Jupiter Research, AC Nielson and Company data