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Ancestry.com to be acquired

Genealogy website Ancestry.com jumped after it agreed to be acquired by a group led by European private equity firm Permira Funds in a cash deal valued at about $1.6 billion. The family history research website and has more than 2 million paying subscribers. It says more than 10 billion records have been added to its site over the past 15 years.

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