Company overview
Ancestry.com.au, Australia's most popular family history site, offers members access to 850 million searchable Australian and UK family history records.
Launched in 2006, 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 and free settler 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, which include 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, Ancestry.fr in France and Jiapu.com in China.
Ancestry.com.au facts and figures
- A member of the Ancestry global network of family history websites
- 870 million searchable Australian and UK family history records
- Record collections including the Convict Lists from 1788 to 1868 and Free Settler Lists from 1826 to 1922, The Australian Electoral Rolls from 1901 to 1936, The Bounty Passenger Lists, the most comprehensive online collection of 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 1.25 billion names from over 100 countries in 12 million member trees
- 90 per cent of Australians consider knowing their family history to be important
The Ancestry international network*:
- 4 billion searchable family history records
- 12 million member trees
- 1.25 billion names uploaded to those trees by Ancestry users
- 8.2 million unique site visitors each month
- 500 employees worldwide
- 26 million photographs and stories uploaded
* All figures current as at September 30, 2009
Sources: ComScore Europe, Jupiter Research, AC Nielson and Company data