Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com
Typewebsite
ShortcutWP:ANCESTRY
StatusGenerally unreliable Generally unreliable
Deprecatedno
Blacklistedno
Recency2021
Domain ancestry.com
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Summary

Ancestry.com is a genealogy site that hosts a database of primary source documents including marriage and census records. Some of these sources may be usable under WP:PRIMARY, but secondary sources, where available, are usually preferred; further, see WP:BLPPRIMARY. Ancestry.com also hosts user-generated content, which is unreliable.

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Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah. The largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, it operates a network of genealogical, historical records, and related genetic genealogy websites. It is owned by Blackstone Inc., which acquired the company on December 4, 2020, in a deal valued at $4.7 billion.

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    WP:ANCESTRYWP:ANCESTRY 📌    		 Generally unreliable 1 2 3 4 5 6

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    		 Ancestry.com is a genealogy site that hosts a database of primary source documents including marriage and census records. Some of these sources may be usable under WP:PRIMARY, but secondary sources, where available, are usually preferred; further, see WP:BLPPRIMARY. Ancestry.com also hosts user-generated content, which is unreliable. 1 Links Spamcheck