Ancestry to Retire Several Services

From the June 5th Family Tree Magazine Enewsletter:


Ancestry.com today annouced that it will "retire" five of its services as of Sept. 5, 2014:

• MyFamily.com, the family website service
• MyCanvas, the photo book publishing service
• Genealogy.com (though the site will remain online with some content)
• Mundia.com, the worldwide family tree site
• Y-DNA and mitochondrial DNA testing

Ancestry.com's executive vice president of product, Eric Shoup, said yesterday in a conference call with genealogy media that ending these services will allow Ancestry.com to focus on its core products and mission.

Subscribers and active users of each service will receive an email with details on any refunds (if applicable) and how to retrieve their content, and each site will have retirement landing pages and FAQs for customers.