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Building with Mapbox GL JS, the Mobile Maps SDKs, Static Images API, and Geocoding, Ancestry offers detailed, interactive, and personalized maps for tracing family heritage

Key benefits of building with Mapbox

  • Mapbox Geocoding pinpoints precise locations around the world
  • Mapbox GL JS and Mobile Maps SDKs serve up seamless visualizations of custom data
  • The Mapbox Static Images API deliver fast map visuals to enrich genealogical data

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From 92 regions in Ireland to a 10 mile radius in Puerto Rico, Ancestry is able to offer an astonishing level of detail on the precise regions of the world where your story started.

Drawing from the world's largest consumer DNA database and the world’s largest database of family trees, Ancestry tells you not only which of hundreds of communities your ancestors came from, it can tell you when they came, with data going back as far as the 1700s.

Ethnicity visualisation

Ancestry uses Mapbox to visualize generations of custom data, and create a personal mapping experience showing granular, colorful connections to the places that made you, you.

DNA Story Map

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