At WorldVitalRecords.com our goal is to provide you with record databases from all over the world, geocoded data, references to top genealogical resources, a blog planet, podcasts, videocasts, Webinars, expert advice, training, and user-generated content. We’re moving as fast as we can to build this genealogy community with resources and services that people really need. We invite you to participate with us as we collaborate with partners and affiliates all over the world to bring you all the information you need in one central location.

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A message from Paul Allen, CEO:

We are a small company in Provo, Utah with a big ambition–to help every genealogist in the world be more successful.

Back in June 1996, three of us were instrumental in building a genealogy site called Ancestry.com. I was its first CEO, but later served in various roles. We changed the rules back then by publishing all our databases online instead of on CD ROMs, like others were doing.

The company has grown dramatically in the past 10 years, but I left in 2002 partly because I was worried about the constant price increases and partly because I didn’t think the company was innovating very much anymore.

Today, we are amazed at how much genealogical data is available online, but we worry that it is too expensive, too difficult to use, and much of it is not accurate. We also worry that some companies are more interested in making money than in helping customers find the answers to their problems.

In June 2006, our team got together again and decided to jump back into the genealogy industry. We launched WorldVitalRecords.com, which now has over 100 million names and is adding new data every day.

Our goal is to help you find what you are looking for whether or not we have the answers on our site. We also want to connect you with experts who can guide you every step of the way.

If the answer is on familysearch.org, we will point you there. If the answer is on census.gov, we will point you there. If the answer is found on print.google.com, we will direct you there. If the experts belong to our German Genealogy group web site, then we’ll invite you to visit with them.

Our #1 goal is to help you succeed. We know that if we help enough people build and share their family tree, then we will grow as a company. We don’t think we’ll ever be the biggest company in the genealogy world, but we know we can help millions of people find the answers they are looking for.

We will soon have hundreds of volunteer mentors and guides to help all of our members with their daily questions.

We add new databases to our web site every day, but soon we will also launch a feature that will help you find answers on millions of genealogy web pages all over the world.

We couldn’t be more excited about being involved once again in the online genealogy space.

But we need your help.

Please consider joining World Vital Records. Become a member by subscribing now.

If you are an experienced genealogist, we also invite you to join one of our country-specific advisory board groups or volunteer mentoring groups, so you can help us acquire the databases that we should acquire, and you can connect with and help other genealogists who are doing research in the same location.

We look forward to see what we can build to help more genealogists around the world find the information they need.

Paul Allen