ancestry jumped 63 per cent in 2025 – from 11,601 in 2024 to 18,910 in 2025, the highest figure since digital records began in 2013.
“There’s more of an awareness now that Europe is livable; that it’s not the country that your great-grandparents fled,” von Koppenfels says. “People are still leaving because they got a great job opportunity, they’re still continue reading …
