Who owns Ancestry.com? The website is owned by Blackstone, a leading global investment firm. Blackstone acquired a majority ...

Ancestry has long appealed to people eager to learn about their family roots. Now the company known for its popular DNA kits is diving into a new area of discovery – health. Tuesday, Ancestry launched ...

Ancestry.com, Inc. (Ancestry.com) is an online family history resource. As of December 31, 2011, the Company had over 1.4 million paying subscribers worldwide. The foundation of its service is a ...

Genealogy and DNA-testing behemoth Ancestry.com is selling 75% of itself to alternative asset manager Blackstone Group, according to a report from Bloomberg. The total deal is valued at $4.7 billion ...

A reader, who has a premium Ancestry.com subscription, recently asked me this: Is there any point in also searching for information on FamilySearch.org? Or can researchers assume Ancestry will give ...

Signing up for Ancestry.com's DNA test requires that you license your DNA data to them, and this data could potentially be shared by them with third parties. What's False Allowing Ancestry.com to ...

Shirley Ruge has long been fascinated with exploring her family tree. At one time, that meant many hours spent combing through records at courthouses and libraries. For the last 20 years or so, the ...

Jamie Yuccas is a CBS News correspondent based in Los Angeles. Yuccas joined CBS News as a New York-based correspondent for CBS Newspath in August 2015. Her reporting has been featured across all CBS ...

Where do the source datasets come from for DNA-based heritage tests like Ancestry or 23andMe? Whose DNA was used to define each heritage or ancestry group? originally appeared on Quora: the place to ...

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