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26.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 201 upvotes, which works out to 8 per 1,000 members.

8peak upvotes per 1,000 members
26.3Kmembers
201best post
78most comments
300posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

35% 28% 20% 13%
Text 35% Link 28% Image 20% Question 13% Gallery 4%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Unearthed the manifest for my Great great great grandmother. I'm at a loss for words.

↑ 201 💬 19 image 2026

I put 15,980 state historical marker inscriptions online, free, and wired them to family trees

↑ 104 💬 23 image 2026

My great x3 grandparents with their children, 1911. Two years later, the parents were brutally murdered. The aftermath is quite the story.

↑ 104 💬 16 gallery 2026

my grandpa (right) and his twin brother (left), who were born in a displaced persons camp post-wwII

↑ 96 💬 10 image 2026

Family Tree by Birthplace

↑ 71 💬 30 image 2026

Just Found A Dark Family Pattern (TW: paedophila, SA)

↑ 60 💬 16 text 2026

The amount of child death is staggering

↑ 53 💬 12 image 2026

The ancestor closest to where you are standing, turned into a road trip on maps from their own years

↑ 41 💬 1 gallery 2026

The loneliness of being the only one who is correct!

↑ 37 💬 19 text 2026

Crazy ancestry tale

↑ 37 💬 6 text 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Ancestry, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/Ancestry have?
r/Ancestry has about 26.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 201 upvotes, which is 8 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Ancestry?
"Unearthed the manifest for my Great great great grandmother. I'm at a loss for words." reached 201 upvotes and 19 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Ancestry.
What subreddits are similar to r/Ancestry?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/GhostMesh48, r/teslastockholders, r/ExploreFortMyers, r/AmericansInCanada, r/TheMirrorCult, r/CzechCoconutCommunity.
What kind of posts do best on r/Ancestry?
Of the posts we hold, 35% are text posts and 28% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Ancestry?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 15:00 UTC (56 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 22:00 UTC (27 avg upvotes), Monday at 22:00 UTC (20 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Ancestry?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Ancestry has 16 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 130 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Ancestry, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.