Review (August 2025)
Discover your family history by exploring the world's largest family tree and genealogy archive. share family photos and stories. it's all free.
12.23M
Estimated Revenue
18.84M
Website Visitors
2.8/5
Trustpilot Score
What do we know about FamilySearch?
Estimated Revenue (2020)
$12.23M
Total Employees
1100
Founded
1894
Industry
Nonprofit Organization Management
Location
Salt Lake City, United States
About
FamilySearch: Discover your family history by exploring the world's largest family tree and genealogy archive. Share family photos and stories. It's all free.
What is FamilySearch's Revenue?
FamilySearch's estimated revenue for 2024 is $12.23M.
What does FamilySearch do?
FamilySearch inspires people everywhere to connect with their family—across generations. FamilySearch is a provided as a free service to everyone, regardless of tradition, culture, or religious affiliation. FamilySearch resources—including the FamilySearch website and apps, research consultation, RootsTech events, and its network of more than 5,000 local family history centers—help millions of people around the world discover their heritage and connect with family members.
What are the monthly traffic metrics for Familysearch?
6/mo Traffic Growth
1.60%
All Time Traffic Growth
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Monthly Hits
19M
Time on Site
16.8Mins
Pages per Visit
26.0
Bounce Rate
24%
How fast is Familysearch growing?
Familysearch has grown by 8.2% in the last 6 months according to SimilarWeb.
How do people interact with Familysearch?
Last month, Familysearch received 19M visitors who spent an average of 16.8 minutes on the website and visited 26.0 different pages per session. Overall, 24% of people bounce on the first visit.
How do people find Familysearch?
10.9M people (58%) visit Familysearch directly. 5.7M (30%) people search for them in Google. Whereas, 383.3k (2%) discover Familysearch through Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube. 960.7k (5%) visitors come from Familysearch's email newsletters. Finally, 49.2k (0.3%) people come from affiliates and or paid referrals.
Who uses Familysearch?
Familysearch's top market is the United States and they receive 12.9M (68.3%) people.Then the 2nd is United Kingdom with 801k (4.3%).The 3rd is is Brazil with 703.4k (3.7%).
Traffic Growth (last 6 months)
What are Familysearch's ads on Google?
Google Ads
FamilySearch Family Tree - Free FamilySearch Records
https://www.familysearch.org/en/
Come join the world's largest shared family tree, with billions of names and records. FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization that connects families across generations. Donate Online. Become A Volunteer. Create A Free Account.
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FamilySearch Family Tree - Free FamilySearch Records
https://www.familysearch.org/en/
Come join the world's largest shared family tree, with billions of names and records. FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization that connects families across generations. Create A Free Account. Become A Volunteer. Donate Online.
FamilySearch Family Tree - Free FamilySearch Records
https://www.familysearch.org/en/
Come join the world's largest shared family tree, with billions of names and records.
FamilySearch Family Tree - Free FamilySearch Records
https://www.familysearch.org/en/
Come join the world's largest shared family tree, with billions of names and records.
Free Mormon Genealogy Records - Free Mormon Genealogy...
https://www.familysearch.org/en/
FamilySearch has served patrons for over 125 years as they search to find their ancestors! FamilySearch, a non-profit arm of the Mormon Church, offers free family history help. Create A Free Account. Become A Volunteer. Donate Online.
What do Familysearch's customers say about them?
Review Score
2.8/5
Total Reviews
8
Info
FamilySearch5 Star
37.5%
4 Star
12.5%
3 Star
12.5%
2 Star
12.5%
1 Star
25.0%
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Lena Koch
Familysearch-- I am a user for as long…
Reviewed on 2021-02-07T22:46:57
Familysearch-- I am a user for as long as it is online. I would have given you 5 stars a few years ago.However, I have degraded you down to four stars.
Why?
I never had any problem using your website. 30 years and more genealogical work and most of the time spend on the Internet.
Many years spend in your research center made me realize that you didn't improve the websites but made them harder to use. There is a saying in life : "you don't change things if the work fine".
The changes you made within your website make it a lot harder to navigate through your website. Your programmers are capable to work easy with the sites, but your older users have to change every times with new designs. Getting older doesn't mean you can change all the time. It also means you have less time left in your life. So stop changing your searchable sites, please. The were always fine in the first place.
You are a free service and that is in today's time very much appreciated. But if you do advertise something for free you should give it for free. It's not a good way, especially for a church, that you tell us things are free but you still can't have them.
I am talking about all the films that are coming online that have a key and are not viewable from a home computer. Many are not falling under the privacy act, because they are way too old to do so.
Country restrictions may be in place, but I am sure that in most cases that has changed too.
Right now, we are in a pandemic and can't visit any history center to view the films.
How long will this last? Who knows. It would be great if you could consider to open the films at least the part that is not within data protection.
One star less from the five star years ago? Stop improving and changing things within your search site and stop advertising something free that is not accessible. Thank you.
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Nic Naranjo
YOU CANNOT DELETE YOUR COMPLETE…
Reviewed on 2021-02-05T15:32:36
YOU CANNOT DELETE YOUR COMPLETE INFORMATION. DO NOT PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION. YOU CAN ONLY DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT!!!!!
I emailed them and they gave me the same BS view of their terms of blah blah blah.I wanted to look for my family history and then it occurred to me my parents moved away because other family were.... abusive. So, I changed my mind and "deleted" most information a week later. The info is not DELETED. It shows that I've made changes and who I made changes to. Not very "church" like if you ask me.
They say its private information and no one can access it but me. If that was true, the site wound be endorsed by Facebook for its data security and we all know Facebook just had phone numbers stolen to be sold. This site is ran by people with rose colored glasses. I want my information I entered permanently deleted with the account. PERIOD.
STAY AWAY FROM THE WEBSITE AND ANYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SITE.
FamilySearch, spare me your reply. Keep it where the sun don't shine.
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Wim Thibaudier
Family search erases parts of family tree
Reviewed on 2021-01-28T16:28:07
I am a former member of latter days saints church. I still use family search. But since I have quitte my church membership very often my family tree was erased.It happens now about 5 times or more.. I don't know if they want to tease me because I'm a former church member or that it is an error in the program. But it makes me sick.. Who has also this expérience.?
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Susan Yardley
Allows Others to Change Your Tree
Reviewed on 2020-06-19T20:05:04
Positive - it is free and because it is run by the Mormon Church has a lot of information that might not otherwise be available.
NEGATIVE - It allows ANYONE to make changes to your family tree.In other words, they can add information whether or not it is accurate (kind of like taking every hint in Ancestry and deciding all of them are relevant) and they can also delete information.
When I asked Family Search about this, they said that of course people can, because it helps their genealogical research???? In my opinion, it is exhausting deleting incorrect information and putting back information someone else deleted. You can contact the "contributor" through the site and ask for them to show you their relationship to your tree. However, I found that people who were changing my tree did not, or would not, reply to that. I have, as a result, deleted about all of my paternal lineage (where they were willy-nilly adding and deleting) and will absolutely no longer use their tree app. Too many other sites will help you develop your tree.
You can still use Family Search for info, but download it and do not add it to a tree if you have a tree elsewhere
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M Harretche
Can't Create account it wont let me…
Reviewed on 2019-07-15T05:19:51
Can't Create account it wont let me complete registration. keep takeing me back too register.Im on samsung galaxy 9 phone maybe you havnt made your side mobile friendly. I was els hopeing too view family tree in more details. But right now this is just too anoying.
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Jonah
I am a member of The Church of Jesus…
Reviewed on 2019-04-04T18:03:24
I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Even if I wasn't,I would still be interested in using FamilySearch. It truly is the best (I mainly use FamilySearch and supplement with other services such as Ancestry, etc.).
The layout is quite simple, the graphics are nice, there is a lot to do to further the work of the Lord in connecting families, among other religious practices within the Church.
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Chuck Bast
Best Free Online service you can use
Reviewed on 2016-06-03T21:44:28
As a 10 plus year member there is no better free genealogy research site out there.You can also be a part of their online indexing service. I have found a few family members in my few years of indexing. because there are so many people helping with the indexing familysearch.org remains free to all and in some cases there are source papers added to the family members. There is an old saying "Try it you'll like it". Have fun researching
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Jane Scea
the best free genealogy site by far
Reviewed on 2014-08-27T16:06:19
familysearch.org is one of the best genealogy sites out there. And it is free to everyone.It is constantly changing and improving and a great place to share your genealogy with others.
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