Ancestry

What is Ancestry?

Ancestry is the world's largest online family history resource, providing access to over 7 billion genealogy records, including Census, SSDI, and Military records. The platform brings together billions of historical documents, millions of family trees, and a vibrant community of passionate family researchers, empowering users to discover their family history and build comprehensive family trees

Highlights

• Access to vast genealogy record collection: Census, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), and Military records
• Ability to build and organize family trees using a single, intuitive database column
• Expose standard tree structure relations (ancestors, parent, root, children, siblings, descendants) through a single SQL query
• Leverage named scopes, integrity checking, and restoration features for efficient tree management
• Arrange (sub)trees into hashes and utilize different strategies for handling orphaned records