>From Genealogy in Time Magazine: *Ancestry.com Quietly Shifts Gears* Two announcements out of Ancestry.com this summer suggest the company has made an important change in their future growth strategy. The first was an announcement of the launch of a new service called AncestryHealth <https://health.ancestry.com/>. This service allows users to combine their personal family health knowledge with family trees that have been created on Ancestry websites. The second was an announcement thatAncestryDNA <http://dna.ancestry.com/> had sold the results of DNA sequences collected from some one million Ancestry customers to a Google-affiliated company called *Calico*. Calico is focussed on longevity research. What makes the dataset so valuable to Calico is both its size and the fact that it comes with extensive family trees. Calico will be studying the DNA results combined with the family trees of Ancestry’s DNA customers to look for patterns in longevity across families. These two announcements combined represent an interesting transition for Ancestry.com The company appears to be making the jump from provider of historical records for past generations to keeper of life records for the current generation. Considering that Ancestry websites control a combined 35% of internet genealogy traffic (see Top 100 Genealogy Websites of 2015 <http://www.genealogyintime.com/articles/top-100-genealogy-websites-of-2015-page01.html>), this is an interest shift in strategy for Ancestry and for the genealogy marketplace at large. In the future, there might be more money to be made managing (and selling) the lifestyle data of the current generation than the historical records of past generations. - See more at: http://www.genealogyintime.com/genealogy-news.html?awt_l=5U5mE&awt_m=Ir5fDVVVlAk.Vy#sthash.eOkSXLMZ.dpuf