What is Ancestry status right now?

Ancestry is operational. Check Ancestry service health and outages at the top of this page for real-time updates.

When was the last Ancestry outage?

The last Ancestry outage was on September 24, 2026: "Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway."

How do I check if Ancestry is down?

Use IsDown to monitor Ancestry status and get alerts when Ancestry is down. You can also check the official Ancestry status page.

How do I get alerts when Ancestry is down?

Create an IsDown account to monitor Ancestry status. Get instant alerts via Slack, PagerDuty, or email when Ancestry outages occur.

Is Ancestry Down? Current Status and Outages

Q: Is Ancestry down today?

Ancestry is not down today according to the official status page. IsDown monitors Ancestry status continuously for outages and service health issues.

Ancestry status updated a few minutes ago

Current Ancestry status

Ancestry is working normally

IsDown last checked Ancestry status on October 03, 2026 at 11:19 AM EDT. We've received 0 user reports in the past 24 hours.

Monitoring since Feb 2023 · 113 incidents caught · 8 components tracked in real-time

Ancestry service health over the last 24 hours

This chart shows the number of user-reported issues for Ancestry service health over the past 24 hours, grouped into 20-minute intervals. It's normal to see occasional reports, which may be due to individual user issues rather than a broader problem.

Outage Map

See where users report Ancestry is down. The map shows recent Ancestry outages from around the world.

Ancestry Outage Map

Recent Ancestry outage reports

See what users report when Ancestry is down and how Ancestry outages affect them.

Oct 02, 2026 (1 day ago) 🇬🇧 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Philip - when i try to log in site does let me but I have a paid subscription..
Oct 01, 2026 (1 day ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

Marsha - For the past 2 days I'm getting a loop for a identity bot. I can access ancestry but when I choose a file, I get the bot..
Oct 01, 2026 (2 days ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

Nancy - Browser Validation Error 54.
Sep 30, 2026 (3 days ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

Ancestry down on multiple computer access sites.
Sep 29, 2026 (4 days ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

B - Nothing is displaying in the Facts tab in the app..
Sep 28, 2026 (5 days ago) 🇬🇧 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

bob - i changed a birth date with sources from 1786 to 1782. no matter what i do Timeline still records 1786.
Sep 28, 2026 (5 days ago) 🇬🇧 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Rowie - Cannot access Ancestry in both Chrome and Edge..
Sep 25, 2026 (8 days ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

Not bringing up records when clicking.
Sep 24, 2026 (9 days ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

Greg - All hints are failing and it says refresh to retry but they continue to fail. Everything else is working fine..
Sep 24, 2026 (9 days ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

Jesse - The hint section keeps popping up a technical difficulties error.
Sep 22, 2026 (11 days ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

Not saving Sources and this has happened in the past as well. Can't switch from profile to hints as well. This was a waste of my time as I get an error and this comment won't save. Probably the 6th time in 3 yrs..
Sep 22, 2026 (11 days ago) 🇿🇦 South Africa

Alex - Whenever I start replying to a message someone has sent to me on Ancestry UK, it says 'We're sorry, this page is temporarily unavailable' - it has been saying that for a while now and won't allow me to reply to any messages.
Sep 18, 2026 (15 days ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

Can't open ancestry all day..
Sep 13, 2026 (20 days ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

Frederick - Ancestry.com is return zero search results even on people I know are in the database..
Sep 12, 2026 (21 days ago) 🇬🇧 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

HELEN - When I click on shared matches, it is consistently saying I have none on all my DNA matches.

DNA-related Features

Early detection is everything

User reports often detect issues before official status pages acknowledge them. Learn how crowdsourced monitoring combined with official status pages provides faster outage detection than relying on either approach alone.

Ancestry Downtime Health — Last 90 Days

In the last 90 days, Ancestry had 4 incidents with a median duration of 44 minutes.

Total

Incidents

Critical

Major Outages

Warning

Minor Incidents

Duration

44 minute

Median Resolution

Recent Ancestry outages detected

Full incident reports for recent Ancestry outages, including timelines, affected components, and resolution details.

33 minutes

Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway.

Sep 24, 2026 at 05:47 PM

41 minutes

Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway.

Sep 02, 2026 at 04:53 PM

about 1 hour

Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway.

Aug 28, 2026 at 10:08 AM

about 1 hour

Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway.

Aug 11, 2026 at 04:22 PM

about 1 hour

Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway.

Jun 15, 2026 at 11:15 AM

41 minutes

Frequent forced logouts and feature issues

May 26, 2026 at 04:53 PM

Never acknowledged

about 1 hour

Widespread family tree service outage

May 07, 2026 at 08:34 PM

Never acknowledged

37 minutes

Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway.

Mar 23, 2026 at 02:17 PM

Detected 3 minutes before

about 2 hours

Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway.

Mar 23, 2026 at 12:12 PM

about 1 hour

Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway.

Dec 05, 2025 at 03:57 AM

Title	IsDown detected At	Duration
Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway. The cause for site impact is being investigated at this time. Additional information and status w...	Sep 24, 2026 at 09:47 PM UTC	33 minutes
Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway. The cause for site impact is being investigated at this time. Additional information and status w...	Sep 02, 2026 at 08:53 PM UTC	41 minutes
Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway. The cause for site impact is being investigated at this time. Additional information and status w...	Aug 28, 2026 at 02:08 PM UTC	about 1 hour
Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway. The cause for site impact is being investigated at this time. Additional information and status w...	Aug 11, 2026 at 08:22 PM UTC	about 1 hour
Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway. The cause for site impact is being investigated at this time. Additional information and status w...	Jun 15, 2026 at 03:15 PM UTC	about 1 hour
Frequent forced logouts and feature issues Users experience repeated forced logouts and problems with loading features during a service outage.	May 26, 2026 at 08:53 PM UTC Never acknowledged	41 minutes
Widespread family tree service outage Users report blank screens, unavailable family tree data, and inaccessible hints during service o...	May 08, 2026 at 12:34 AM UTC Never acknowledged	about 1 hour
Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway. The cause for site impact is being investigated at this time. Additional information and status w...	Mar 23, 2026 at 06:20 PM UTC IsDown detected 3 minutes before official update	37 minutes
Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway. The cause for site impact is being investigated at this time. Additional information and status w...	Mar 23, 2026 at 04:12 PM UTC	about 2 hours
Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway. The cause for site impact is being investigated at this time. Additional information and status w...	Dec 05, 2025 at 08:57 AM UTC	about 1 hour

Ancestry Components Status

Check if any Ancestry component is down. View the current status of 8 services and regions.

Component	Status	Details
DNA-related Features status	OK	View details
Family Tree Features status	OK	View details
Hint-related Functionality status	OK	View details
Home Page status	OK	View details
Login Processes status	OK	View details
Mobile Applications status	OK	View details
Search Functionality status	OK	View details
Shopping Cart status	OK	View details

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Ancestry down today?

Ancestry isn't down. You can check Ancestry status and incident details on the top of the page. IsDown continuously monitors Ancestry official status page every few minutes. In the last 24 hours, there were 0 outages reported.

What is the current Ancestry status?

Ancestry is currently operational. You can check Ancestry status and incident details on the top of the page. The status is updated in almost real-time, and you can see the latest outages and issues affecting customers.

Is there a Ancestry outage now?

No, there is no ongoing official outage. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.

Is Ancestry down today or just slow?

Currently there's no report of Ancestry being slow. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.

How are Ancestry outages detected?

IsDown monitors the Ancestry official status page every few minutes. We also get reports from users like you. If there are enough reports about an outage, we'll show it on the top of the page.

Is Ancestry having an outage right now?

Ancestry last outage was on September 24, 2026 with the title "Customers may be experiencing issues at this time. Investigation underway."

How often does Ancestry go down?

IsDown has tracked 108 Ancestry incidents since February 2023. When Ancestry goes down, incidents typically resolve within 45 minutes.

Is Ancestry down for everyone or just me?

Check the Ancestry status at the top of this page. IsDown combines official status page data with user reports to show whether Ancestry is down for everyone or if the issue is on your end.

What Ancestry components does IsDown monitor?

IsDown monitors 8 Ancestry components in real-time, tracking the official status page for outages, degraded performance, and scheduled maintenance.

How to check if Ancestry is down?

Subscribe (if possible) to updates on the official status page.
IsDown continuously monitors the Ancestry status page and multiple sources to provide up-to-date information. Check back with us for the latest Ancestry uptime status.

Why use IsDown to monitor Ancestry instead of the official status page?

Because IsDown is a status page aggregator, which means that we aggregate the status of multiple cloud services. You can monitor Ancestry and all the services that impact your business. Get a dashboard with the health of all services and status updates. Set up notifications via Slack, Datadog, PagerDuty, and more, when a service you monitor has issues or when maintenances are scheduled.

How IsDown compares to DownDetector when monitoring Ancestry?

IsDown and DownDetector help users determine if Ancestry is having problems. The big difference is that IsDown is a status page aggregator. IsDown monitors a service's official status page to give our customers a more reliable source of information instead of just relying on reports from users. The integration allows us to provide more details about Ancestry's Outages, like incident title, description, updates, and the parts of the affected service. Additionally, users can create internal status pages and set up notifications for all their third-party services.