Ancestry Ireland Loses Scottish Record Access Rights
- * Ancestry.com's Irish Unit (Ancestry Ireland): * Seeks access to past records from the 12th-16th centuries (prison, census, wills, valuation rolls) held by National records of Scotland...
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* Ancestry.com‘s Irish Unit (Ancestry Ireland):
* Seeks access to past records from the 12th-16th centuries (prison, census, wills, valuation rolls) held by National records of Scotland (NRS).
* Generated $222m in revenue adn $62.8m in pre-tax profit in 2024.
* Received a $905.5m dividend from a related company.
* Experienced a notable increase in administrative costs ($1.03bn from $306.5m) due to increased royalty payments to its parent company.
* Access to Records: Ancestry Ireland has been unsuccessfully trying to secure a commercial deal with the NRS for 20 years to access 80 terabytes of data.
* Ancestry.com Overall:
* Generates approximately $1 billion in annual revenue.
* Holds 60 billion records online.
* Has over 25 million people in its consumer DNA network.
* National Records of Scotland (NRS): Is digitizing its records with help from the Genealogical Society of Utah.