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Ancestry.com Acquires 1000memories (YC S10)

by michaelfairley on 10/3/12, 12:59 PM with 21 comments

• by scott_s on 10/3/12, 2:26 PM

  I'm waiting for Facebook to acquire Ancestry.com and incorporate it into their overall infrastructure.

  My parents have used Ancestry.com quite a lot, and I realized that what's being built there is a historical, online family network. That is, as you dig into your family's past to find ancestors, you will find records of people that others have made or added to. That, of course, means you have found other people you're related to. Incorporating that into the current largest online social network just seems so obvious to me that I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.

• by zach on 10/3/12, 4:16 PM

  I've always wondered what 1000memories business cards look like, because I'd totally love it if they were gravestones:

  DAN WILLIAMS

  BELOVED FOUNDER AND CTO

  Okay, that was random, but congrats on the acquisition. Great fit.

• by rdl on 10/3/12, 4:35 PM

  Wow, congrats. This seems like a natural fit for 1000memories, and great terms for the customers. I hope it worked out well for the team and investors as well.

  It would be great if you could post a little more about how the deal went down (in a hn-type blog post, not something aimed at your users) -- how long it took, who approached whom, what parts were good or difficult, etc.

• by JohnBooty on 10/3/12, 3:04 PM

  For whatever it's worth, I was reunited with my sister via Ancestry.com!

  I'm not affiliated with either the Mormon Church or Ancestry.com... in fact, my sister and I both canceled our Ancestry.com account before the trial period was up and we never paid a dime. That was our first sign of proof we were truly siblings.

• by vyrotek on 10/3/12, 3:15 PM

  Congrats! So when does the team move to Utah? It's not so bad, we don't bite.

  I know many developers at Ancestry.com and I hear it's a great place to work. It sounds like you'll be able to continue to operate independently for while but it might be time to brush up on your C# as they are .Net based company. :)

• by aberman on 10/3/12, 4:41 PM

  Great team, great product, natural fit. Congrats to Ancestry and 1000Memories.

• by curiouslurker on 10/3/12, 9:04 PM

  Congrats! Is it an acquihire?

• by migfromparis on 10/3/12, 2:26 PM

  This is good news bravo.

• by thehodge on 10/3/12, 2:04 PM

  Congratulations to all

• by droithomme on 10/3/12, 7:03 PM

  Like all of ancestry's acquisitions, all this content that was gathered by various people will now be placed behind a pay wall that ancestry will assert ownership and control rights over.