Dick Eastman's newsletter today brought interesting news of Ancestry.com's third quarter profits:
The number of Ancestry's subscribers totaled approximately 2,243,000 as of September 30, 2015--up 6% from the year before. I imagine their much-touted DNA services brought in a lot of new subscribers.Third Quarter Revenues $171.5 Million, Up 10.9% Year-Over-Year
It also "added more than 400 million new records in the third quarter of 2015 to its collection of more than 16 billion records. During the quarter, the Company launched its U.S. Probate and Wills collection, comprising 170 million records dating to 1668 and spanning all 50 states and more than 100 million Americans. Additionally, Newspapers.com, an Ancestry business unit, announced a collaboration with Gannett to digitally archive more than 80 U.S. newspapers. Other significant new collections added in the third quarter included:
• U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007• U.K. City, Town and Village Photos, 1857-2005• U.K. Apprentices Indentured in Merchant Navy, 1824-1910• Germany collections totaling 60 million new records."
From URL: http://ir.ancestry.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1575319-15-7&CIK=1575319
Ancestry's release of Social Security Applications made my heart sing, as it helped solve several mysteries in my own family research. How? Applicants were asked for parents' names.