Founded in 2006, by Paul Allen and several key members of the original Ancestry.com team, World Vital Records, Inc. provides affordable genealogy databases and family history networking tools to a worldwide audience.

On October 4, 2006, World Vital Records sold its first membership subscription with 21 online databases. Currently World Vital Records has more than 16,000 subscribers with more than 3,000 databases containing more than half a billion online names and records.

World Vital Records is also making significant investments in servers, storage capacity, and data processing equipment in order to create a great product for consumers. Each week World Vital Records sends out a newsletter containing upcoming databases, industry news, genealogical tips, articles on recent databases, and more.