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Who owns the genealogy companies? Part Two

It is very difficult to rank the size of genealogy companies because there is no real category in the business world for genealogy. In a real sense, the genealogy companies are all information and service
companies. They either sell a service, such as printing charts, or
information, like databases of source documents and indexes. Although
Ancestry.com is clearly the leader, second place is a little more
problematical since Ancestry.com has several large sub-brand names such
as genealogy.com, their software program Family Tree Maker, and
Rootsweb.


Without any regard to which is the next largest, here is a list of some of the larger companies:

http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/

http://www.footnote.com/

http://www.genealogybank.com/

http://www.findmypast.com/

http://www.genealogytoday.com/

http://www.genline.com/

http://www.myheritage.com/


WorldVitalRecords, Inc.

This large database indicates that it is a service of Familylink. Familylink describes itself as follows:

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