The Ancestry.com family of sites and products is a collection of billions of historical records—digitized, indexed, and put online—available by subscription and through libraries around the world. The company developed their own systems for digitizing handwritten historical documents, and established relationships with national, state, and local government archives; historical societies; religious institutions; and private collectors of historical content around the world to build this collection. The records and documents, combined with their web-based online search technologies and software, let subscribers research family history, build family trees, and use the Ancestry.com sites for social networking. ...
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