Interesting… Even the world’s most successful genealogy company has one heck of a lot of outstanding debt… PROVO, Utah, May 15, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, today announced that it has refinanced its Term Loan due December 2018 (the “Old Term Loan”), which had an outstanding balance of [...]
The following teaser is from the April 15, 2013 edition of the Chattanoogan: April 15 can be a taxing day for all of us living in modern times, but our ancestors didn’t have it much easier. Although federal income tax only dates back to the Civil War era, Tennesseans have been paying state and local [...]
The following was received from Ancestry.com:
PROVO, Utah, March 28, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ancestry.com LLC reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012. “We are pleased with our fourth quarter performance, as well as a successful and eventful 2012. Including Archives.com, which we acquired in 2012, we finished the year with 2.5 million subscribers [...]
The following press release is from Ancestry.com: Ancestry.com Celebrates America’s Immigrant Influence by Revealing Name Trends Throughout History PROVO, UT–(Marketwire – Mar 14, 2013) – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, is revealing name trends from the past 150 years to inspire Americans to learn more about their immigrant roots. Regardless of their [...]
The following excerpt is from the March 14, 2013 edition of RTE News/Ireland: One of Ireland’s most extraordinary historic documents, the 420-metre long Morpeth Roll, has been digitised and is being made available online as part of a collaborative project between NUI Maynooth, Castle Howard in Yorkshire and Ancestry.com. The unique testimonial document, on 652 [...]
PROVO, Utah, March 14, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Ancestry.com Inc. has scheduled a conference call to discuss its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012. Fourth quarter financial information will be posted to the Ancestry.com website and the call will be held on Thursday, March 28, 2013 at approximately [...]
The following teaser is from an interesting post published on February 26, 2013 about Ancestry’s use of the Hadoop Framework to allow users to find more ancestors. Good article… Genealogy website Ancestry.com, an Internet veteran that traces its own roots back to 1997, has accumulated 11 billion records (and counting) to date, including birth and [...]
The following news release is from MarketWatch.com. Ancestry.com Inc. Presents at J.P. Morgan High Yield & Leveraged Finance Conference PROVO, Utah, Feb 25, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) – Ancestry.com Subscriber Growth of 18% Year-Over-Year – 2012 Total Adjusted Revenue $488 million, up 22% Year-Over-Year. Ancestry.com Inc., the world’s largest online family history resource, is [...]
The following news release is from Matthew Deighton at Ancestry.com: Innovative test now available to the general public provides analysis of your genetic ethnicity, living relative matches, and further insight into family history research (PROVO, Utah) – February 21, 2013 –Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, today announced the public availability of its [...]
According the Matthew Deighton, at Ancestry.com, “it turns out that what happens in Vegas stays online. Ancestry.com has nearly 300 million marriage records, spanning all 50 states, more than 16 countries and 500 years including the Nevada Marriage index from 1956 to 2005.” The following InfoGraphic is from Ancestry.com:
The following excerpt is from a thought-provoking story written by Ken Krogue and published in the January 24, 2013 edtion of the Forbes website. It’s about honesty, doing the right thing, and decisions that were made at a little-known Utah company called Infobases. Infobases went on to buy a book-publishing company called Ancestry, Inc, and [...]
Permira has completed its $1.6 billion acquisition of Ancestry.com, the firm announced. Qatalyst Partners LP acted as financial advisor and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz acted as legal counsel to Ancestry.com. The deal was first announced in October. Permira, the European private equity firm with global reach, and Ancestry.com Inc. ACOM +0.16% , the world’s [...]
The following excerpt is from an article in the December 27, 2012 edition of the Salt Lake Tribune: Ancestry.com CEO Tim Sullivan said Thursday he expects almost no changes in the company’s operations after shareholders approved the sale of the Provo company to the European private equity firm Permira and other investors. Ninety-nine percent of [...]
The following excerpt is from an article published in the December 19, 2012 edition of the Salt Lake Tribune. Provo-based Ancestry.com complied Wednesday with the order of a Delaware judge and filed additional information ahead of a Dec. 27 stockholder vote on the $1.6 billion acquisition of the genealogy website by a group led by [...]
